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Bacteria can remove plastic pollution from lakes: Study
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 26 (ANI): Some naturally-occurring lake bacteria grow faster and more efficiently on the remains of plastic bags than on natural matter like leaves and twigs. The bacteria break down the carbon compounds in plastic to use as food for their growth. The scientists said th
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Researchers investigate drug used to treat botulism disease
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 26 (ANI): Botulism is a rare but deadly disease, and researchers at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) are looking into a drug that is used to treat neuromuscular weakness as a potential treatment.
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Male and female gut microbiomes respond to antibiotics differently
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [U.S], July 21 (ANI): In a new study, researchers found that antibiotics have sex-specific effects on the gut microbiome makeup of male and female laboratory rats. The findings could have implications for using the drugs in humans to treat or prevent bacterial infection.
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Candida control: The cells that ward off fungal infections
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Rehovot [Israel], July 13 (ANI): The yeast Candida is the most infamous of all the fungi that inhabit the human body. This distant relative of baker's yeast is well known for producing several different varieties of thrush, which can be quite bothersome, but it can also result in an invasive
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Do you know small intestinal microbiome prevents obesity and type 2 diabet
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 11 (ANI): According to a new study each person's gut is home to 500 to 1,000 different bacterial species, which might total 100,000 trillion germs. Researchers from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine used mouse models to examine how diet and feedi
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DNA methylation in bacteria regulates virulence, reproduction, and gene ex
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Houston [Texas], July 2 (ANI): According to research, DNA methylation in bacteria regulates virulence, reproduction, and gene expression. DNA methylation is crucial for controlling the tissue-specific gene expression that determines a cell's identity, such as whether it is a skin cell or a b
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BASF & Permionics join hands to launch high performance face masks
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Vadodara (Gujarat) [India], July 1 (ANI/PRNewswire): BASF has joined hands with Vadodara-based membrane manufacturer, Permionics Membranes, to extend, for the first time, the application of BASF's Ultrason E polyethersulphone (PESU) polymer into coated fabrics that serve as particulate and b
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Researchers found unique insight into inner workings of our cellular power
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Birmingham [England], June 8 (ANI): According to the researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University in Sweden, in unprecedented detail, the machinery that the cells' powerhouses, the mitochondria, use to form their proteins are found.
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Researchers from IIT Roorkee develop novel multi-model nanobiotic platform
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Roorkee (Uttarakhand) [India], May 13 (ANI): Surmounting the challenge to develop a novel arsenal against bacterial pathogens remains formidable, a research team from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee employed a strategy to develop a multimodal nanobiotic platform which combat
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IIT Roorkee researchers discover molecule, it targets Carbapenem resistanc
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Roorkee (Uttarakhand) [India], April 6 (ANI): Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) have deciphered a novel mechanism of Disulfiram in treating blood infections and pneumonia caused by the Metallo-beta-lactamase producing Acinetobacter baumannii, a nosoco
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Freshwater mussels can inhibit bacterial diseases, finds study
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Helsinki [Finland], April 4 (ANI): Researchers from the University of Jyvaskyla found brown trout better survived a Flavobacterium disease outbreak if the fish had larvae of freshwater pearl mussel in their gills.
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Study finds antibiotics' effectiveness reduces when multiple microbes are
Updated : 3 years, 12 months ago IST
Cambridge [UK], March 20 (ANI): A study has found that higher doses of antibiotics are required to eliminate a bacterial infection of the airways when other microbes are present.
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