Bacteria News
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Hoopoes have a remarkable habit. They cover their eggs with a secretion from their beaks. The secretion is packed with beneficial bacteria, which protects the eggs. A new research study has been looking into this behaviour further.
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Scientists are seeking to find out the different processes used by bacteria to survive destruction from antimicrobial peptides within the natural environment. The hope is to find new ways to kill pathogenic organisms.
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New research suggests that a person’s specific genes influence whether intestinal bacteria will trigger inflammatory bowel diseases. Understanding such causes is provides knowledge to help with prevention and treatment.
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A recent study has found a link between the kind of bacteria you have in your gut and your mental anxiety levels. This throws up some interesting questions in the study of anxiety relief.
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Health and hygiene are important issues and often need to go hand-in-hand in order to minimize the risk of infection. Have you ever wondered what the top five stomach churning hygiene facts might be?
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The breaking science news story of the week has been the announcement of a new antibiotic called Teixobactin and its apparent "superbug" battling qualities. Although welcome, it is important to consider the antibiotic itself beyond the hyperbole.
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Certain bacteria that can eat their way through yeast in the human gut could be the basis for new treatments for people suffering from bowel diseases, according to some new research.
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Etymologists have made a new discovery to combat a disease that has been savagely killing global honeybee populations. The scientists took a toxin released by the pathogen that causes American foulbrood disease and developed an inhibitor against it.
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Bacteria are a source of terpenes. These are natural compounds used to make drugs, food additives, perfumes, and other useful products. Research indicates that there could be other terpene products, as yet undiscovered, hiding in the genomes of bacteria.
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Bacteria to survive on a variety of energy sources. Nonetheless, scientists were surprised recently to discover new species of bacteria that can survive and function on electricity alone.
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The website Pharmaceutical Microbiology has reviewed the top ten microbiology stories and events that have made the news during 2014.
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A research study from institutes in the Netherlands reports that a couple will share approximately 80 million bacteria during a 10-second kiss!
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A new strand of research shows that people suffering from Parkinson’s disease have a different composition of bacteria in their intestines compared with normal adults. A research group think that there is a causative connection.
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The estimated rate of tuberculosis (TB) per 100,000 people, compiled from World Health Organisation (WHO) data for each country (2013), shows a rise. There are some interesting geographical findings.
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One question that has puzzled scientists is how vultures can live on a diet of carrion that would at least trigger severe food-poisoning, and probably kill most other animals.
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Deep below Earth's surface are scattered vast lakes of oil. These hydrocarbon reservoirs are dispersed randomly much like remote islands in Earth’s oceans.
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Antibiotic resistance is the scourge of modern medicine. Alarmingly, even animals that live far from humans are developing resistance to antibiotics.
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Specific bacterial components in the human gut can help trigger a natural defense mechanism that guards against malaria transmission. This has come from a new study.
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Across the U.K., over 8,100 healthcare professionals and some 3,600 members of the public have pledged to do their own part to help reduce antibiotic resistance by becoming “antibiotic guardians.”
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Smartphone are known for carrying germs. However, did you know that there are five other common items that are “cleaner” than the cellular device? Digital Journal takes a look.
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According to a new survey, based on people in the U.S., washrooms are used for a lot of different activities (beyond the obvious).
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The latest figures from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that whooping cough continues to increase across the U.S.
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Through a mechanism termed horizontal gene transfer, an antibacterial gene family has dispersed to a plant, an insect, several fungi, and an archaeon.
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Willy Burgdorfer, the scientific entomologist who first identified the bacteria that cause Lyme disease has died at the age of 89. The cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease.
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A new study suggests that the addition of dietary fiber to a diet leads to a shift in the gut toward beneficial bacteria. This reduces risks of cancer and can help with weight loss.
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Scientists now argue that the natural presence of viruses in the gut (virome) help to maintain health-maintenance and infection-fighting. This is similar to the role of the intestinal bacteria.
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Researchers have developed a new climate change modeling tool. The tool shows that carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere, as result of greater plant growth can be offset by changes in the activity of soil microbes.
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The food poisoning bacterium Campylobacter is relatively hardy in many kitchens. New research shows that the robustness is boosted by "chicken juice."
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This week is “Get Smart About Antibiotics Week.” This is an international collaboration between U.S., Europe, Australia and Canada.
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Biologists have found that naturally occurring carbon monoxide (CO) is essential for immune system cells in the human body to be able to combat invasive bacterial pathogens.
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Black silicon is a synthetic nanomaterial with antibacterial properties. Elena P. Ivanova
The Great Work of the Metal Lover artwork Adam Brown
Viewing dancing bacteria via a microscope Michael Klein
Scanning electron micrograph of very small and numerous bacterial cells inhabiting icy brine channels in Antarctica’s Lake Vida, which lies in the Victoria Valley, one of the northernmost of the Antarctic dry valleys. Credit: Christian H. Fritsen, Desert Research Institute
Clostridium difficile, a Gram-positive rod shaped bacterium
This key experiment shows the successful protection of a phage-sensitive bacterial strain against a virus. Top-right - bacteria growing in the absence of a virus; Top-left - holes in the culture caused by an infecting virus; Bottom - when equipped with specific CRISPR defense system components, the bacteria became resistant to the virus. John van der Oost
A representative enterobacteria - Salmonella. Taragui
The red wine bacteria Oenococcus oeni Got
Diagram showing the diversity of the human microbiome Human Microbiome Project
Electron micrograph of human gut bacteria
A Petri dish map of artist Sonja Bäumel's body shape. Sonja Bäumel
Streptococcus pneumoniae (electron micrograph image) Strep Research Center
Cyanobacteria, source of biodiesel James Golden/University of California, San Diego
Electron micrograph of H. pylori, the ulcer bacterium Yutaka Tsutsumi
CDC microbiologist, Alicia Shams, demonstrates Klebsiella pneumoniae growing on a MacConkey agar plate. Klebsiella pneumoniae is the most common Enterobacteriaceae that is drug resistant. CDC
A stain of the bacterium Bacteroides biacutis US CDC
Antibiotics like these may soon become lose their potency as pathogens adapt. Tom Varco
Colonies of pathogenic bacteria growing on an agar culture plate - Salmonella enterica (serovar typhimurium) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Bacterial image, under EM
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