Bacteria, viruses and microbial systems – defence mechanisms, culture methods and the instruments used to study them.
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Scientists from Umeå University and Cornell University have discovered a newly formed bacterial defence mechanism arising from the regulation of activity of some enzymes via...
Researchers at Vanderbilt University have found that laboratory evolved pH-sensitive mutations in bacteria rapidly confer transcriptional responses to the environment’s shift in pH, mimicking patterns...
Researchers from Harvard University have succesfully proved that CRISPR can work as a recorder of molecular events. Synthetic DNA molecules introduced in bacteria over a...
Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines department of Sanofi, has announced a project to develop a vaccine against the Zika virus (ZIKV). The company will leverage their...
American startup Nanopore Diagnostics has raised $600000 to develop The iNDxer, a device to detect bacterial infections. The money, provided by the Missouri Technology Corporation...
Researchers from Oxford University have developed a new technique to create new vaccines faster and more effectively. The scientists used a ‘bacterial superglue’ made of two...
Researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital will conduct a clinical trial for weight loss based on human faeces. Pills filled with excrements from healthy people will...
The slow but unstoppable progress of evolution has enabled, step by step, mutation after mutation, the conquest of virtually all ecosystems on Earth. Even in...
