Archive for June, 2007

PDT kills drug-resistant bacteria in lab

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Research from the School of Dental Medicine has shown Photodynamic therapy PDT possibly will be an efficient cure for fungal infections and definite bacterial infections of the oral cavity, as well as some that are resistant to antibiotics. Researchers found that the bacteria S. mutans, as well as fungal organisms of the genus Candida, […]

Molecular technique shows promise in destroying drug resistance in bacteria

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Medicinal opposing bacterium and bacteria are now everywhere in both hospital location and the larger community a paper that shows online ahead of publication in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Urge, new strategies and targets are needed to fight drug resistant bacterium and bacteria. Drug opposing makes it hard to fight illness and […]

Pacifying bacteria prevents lethal post-op infections

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

By means of instilling a defensive covering into the intestines to calm down bacterium and bacteria there as a substitute of depending on antibiotics to eliminate them, the scientists were clever to protect mice from otherwise lethal infections. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is familiar, found in the intestines of about 3 percent of vigorous people. It is […]

Bacteria vials, reported missing from College center, thought to be destroyed

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Here is an article about bacteria vials that were reported missing from a college center. Researchers in the Medical College of Wisconsins Center for Biopreparedness and Infectious Diseases reported on March 16, 2007, that they could not account for six vials of froen infectious bacterium cells. These vials were kept in a secured biosafety […]

Bacteria that Resist Treatment

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

This is an article that tells about the development of antibiotic resistant bacterium and bacteria. Bacteria were once the major cause of life threatening diseases in animal and human life. With the development of the drug penicillin in the 1940s changed the said situation. Antibiotics have become so popular that people have come to expect […]

UC Research Discovers New Way to Fight Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

This is an article about the discovery of the UC researchers of a new way to fight bacterium and bacteria hat has developed antibiotic resistance. The development of these antibiotic resistant bacteria has been responsible for the prevention of the treatment of certain diseases like cystic fibrosis in lung infection patients and life threatening cases […]

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria: Who is winning the battle?

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

This is an article that shows just how antibiotic resistant forms of bacterium and bacteria develop as time goes on. As stated in the article, medical people like the physicians and clinicians have been facing an ongoing kind of challenge in order to keep up with the rapid development of significant infection causing bacterium and […]

Bacteria Hijack Hormone Response to Infect Plants

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Here is an article about virulence proteins in plants cells that benefit bacterium and bacteria. In this article it explains that bacteria not only infects humans and animals. Bacteria also infect plants and the like. When bacterium or bacteria infects plants, they inject virulence proteins into the microscopic plant cells as shown under a microscope. […]

Introducing baby to the right bacteria

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

Breast milk could cut cases of deadly GI inflammation in premature infants
This is an article about the importance and advantages brought about by the use of breast milk in premature infants. Stressed in the article is the importance of the symbiotic relationship that an infant must have with the right kind of bacteria/ […]

Based on Body Size, Bacteria and Elephants Have Similar Metabolism, Ecologists Find

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

This is an article about a research team showing that organisms use their biochemical characteristics to overcome limitations arising from their body size. According to the article, life scientists claim that based on body size, small organisms are more metabolically active than large organisms. But a new study led by Bai-Lian Li, a professor of […]