Soon, bacteria-powered light may illuminate your house
A leading electronic company has come up with a more greener and power-efficient lighting system, which will use glowing bioluminescent bacteria to illuminate your house
News Section | Microbiology
New ‘super’ yeast turns pine into ethanol
A “super strain” of yeast developed by researchers at the University of Georgia can efficiently ferment ethanol from pre-treated pine – one of the most common species of trees
Revolutionary new method stops deadly ‘superbugs’ in its tracks
In a new study, researchers claim to have developed a new and faster method to track major infection-causing “superbugs”
Nutrition-starved bugs become resistant to antibiotics
Bugs starved of nutrition during infection become resistant to nearly every type of antibiotics, even if they are exposed to some of them for the first time
Gonorrhea cure gets tough as bug grows drug resistant
At a time when the controversy over the antibiotic resistant superbug in the capital’s hospitals refuses to die down
New drugs used to tackle hospital superbugs up risk of infection
Experts have warned that new antibiotics used to tackle hospital superbugs can actually increase the risk of infection
`Vampire` bacteria could serve as living antibiotic for infectious diseases
Scientists have found that a vampire-like bacteria that leeches onto certain other bacteria – including certain human pathogens –could serve as a living antibiotic for a range of infectious diseases
Bacteria ‘disabler’ antibiotic silences resistant bugs for good
After 70 years, antibiotics are still the primary treatment for overcoming bacterial infections, but they are becoming less effective against resistant bugs that cause them
Oxygen-breathing life on land began earlier than thought
Oxygen-breathing bacteria may have thrived on land 100 million years earlier than previously thought, new evidence suggests
Iron ‘likely culprit behind probiotic blocker during active IBD’
A new study has found a scientific ‘design’ for a probiotic that could be used to treat inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), such as Crohn’s disease
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