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Microbial bacteria can help identify signs of premature births
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
London [U.K.], Jan. 24 (ANI): It came to light with a recent study that changes to the communities of microbes living in the reproductive tract of pregnant women could help to spot those at risk of giving birth prematurely.
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Turning bacteria into 'world's smallest tape recorders'
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov 24 (ANI): In a ground-breaking development, a team of researchers has genetically modified a strain of bacteria to create what is essentially the world's smallest data recorder.
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Dietary fiber helps maintain gut health: Study
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Aug 13 (ANI): A team of researchers have discovered that by-products of the digestion of dietary fiber by gut microbes act as the right fuel to help maintain gut health.
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Rebalancing gut may help kids with autism
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan. 25 (ANI): A study finds that faecal transplant - a method of introducing donated healthy microbes into people with gastrointestinal disease to rebalance the gut - may treat behavioural symptoms in children with autism.
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Manuka honey curbs activity and growth of bacteria even at low dilutions
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept. 27 (ANI): Even low dilutions of Manuka honey can curb the activity and growth of bacterial bio-films, the thin but resilient layer of microbes that build up on and stick to, any surface including plastic, according to new research from the University of Southampton.
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