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Microbiology
by ruth on October 30, 2009
Scientists have identified antimicrobial proteins from pumpkin rinds that can inhibit the growth of microbes, including Candida albicans which causes vaginal yeast infections, diaper rash in infants, ...
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Food and Agriculture
, Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics
, Microbiology
by ruth on June 18, 2009
Researchers have successfully sequence the genome of Azotobacter vinelandii, a nitrogen fixing bacterium found in soil. The data gathered will help advance research on nitrogen fixation and other bioc...
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Energy, Environment and Ecology
, Microbiology
by ruth on March 31, 2009
Researchers have developed microbial electrolysis cells using Archaea species that could use the current to convert carbon dioxide and water to methane without any organic material, bacteria or hydrog...
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Microbiology
by ruth on February 24, 2009
Researchers have discovered that lactic acid bacteria, commonly found in dairy products, can also be used as a vehicle for an oral vaccine against anthrax, and possibly other types of viruses and path...
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Diagnostics, Methodologies and Instrumentation
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, Other Biotechnology News
by ruth on February 10, 2009
In the 4th Cultural Heritage Conservation Forum held this week in Caracas, Venezuela, curators will be collaborating with biotech scientists to find ways to restore and prevent the decay of art and cu...
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Biotech Hubs and Facilities
, Microbiology
by ruth on January 14, 2009
A new molecular ecology facility at Mason called the MicroBiome Analysis Center (MBAC) aims to catalog the human microbiome - the population of microorganisms living within the human body- and try to ...
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Corporate and Industrial News
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by ruth on December 21, 2008
Roquette Frères has entered into an agreement to commercialize technologies by Rice University researchers, who genetically engineered E. coli bacteria to produce high yields of succinic acid through ...
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Food and Agriculture
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by ruth on December 11, 2008
Microbiologists have identified new species of bacteria in raw milk. One of these bacteria, Chryseobacterium oranimense, can grow at cold temperatures and secretes enzymes that may spoil milk. Further...
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Energy, Environment and Ecology
, Microbiology
by ruth on November 25, 2008
Researchers have identified a fungus found in the Patagonia forest that produces a new type of diesel fuel. Tests indicated that the fungus Gliocladium roseum, which grows on the branches of a tree ca...
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Microbiology
by ruth on October 31, 2008
Vetiver grass is primarily cultivated not only to help control erosion in paddy fields, stream banks and terraces, but also for the essential oils extracted from its roots.
The Vetiver grass is the o...
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Microbiology
by ruth on September 22, 2008
Yale researchers have found new supporting evidence to the so-called "hygiene hypothesis" - the theory that a lack of exposure to parasites, bacteria and viruses in the developed world may l...
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Microbiology
by ruth on August 23, 2008
Researchers have identified a diatom called Skeletonema costatum that can reduce the levels of the red tide's toxicity to animals and other algae as well.
"What we do know is that this diatom...
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Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
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by ruth on July 4, 2008
The broad-spectrum antibiotic Ceftobiprole, discovered by Swiss company Basilea Pharmaceuticals, has been demonstrated to be effective against some of the deadliest strains of multiple-resistant Staph...
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Energy, Environment and Ecology
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by ruth on May 7, 2008
In a study published in Nature Biotechnology, scientists discover that based on the genome analysis of Tricoderma reesei, the fungus has the genes required to break down plant cell walls, to simple su...
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Energy, Environment and Ecology
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by ruth on April 24, 2008
Scientists have engineered a cyanobacteria to produce sugars which may be used as raw material for ethanol and designer fuels production.
Nobles made the new cyanobacteria (also known as blue-green al...
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Energy, Environment and Ecology
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by ruth on February 29, 2008
Researchers have demonstrated that a water treatment system using microorganisms called membrane biofilm reactor (MBfR) is effective in eliminating the common contaminant chlorinated solvent trichloro...
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Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
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by ruth on February 27, 2008
By growing them together with a strain of Steptomyces, scientists were able to trigger anitbiotic production in Rhodococcus, a soil bacteria that does not normally produce antibiotics but whose genome...
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Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics
, Meetings and Other Events
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by ruth on February 25, 2008
What: Natural Products Discovery & Production II: Celebrating Successes of Traditional and Novel Cultures
When: June 22-26, 2008
Where: Hilton Whistler Resort, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
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Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics
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by ruth on February 18, 2008
Preliminary data indicates that scientists may have identified a new approach that may be effective in reducing the virulence of Staphylococcus aureus, the bacterium responsible for most staph infecti...
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Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
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by ruth on January 14, 2008
Preliminary data indicates that Sirolimus (trade name: Rapamune), a macrolide compoundisolated from the bacterium Streptomyces hygroscopicus in a soil sample collected from easter island, may have pot...
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Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics
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by ruth on December 22, 2007
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced the official launch of the Human Microbiome Project, the collective genomes of all microorganisms present in or on the human body.
Part of the...
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Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
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by ruth on December 21, 2007
Cornell researchers have developed a drug candidate against potential bioterror agents, Hendra and Nipah viruses. The compound is a peptide (protein) related to a parainfluenza virus that appeared to ...
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Microbiology
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by ruth on December 13, 2007
Researchers have discovered that the bacteria Shewanella can produce semiconducting nanotubes that may be useful in the creation of a new generation of nanoelectronic devices. This is the first report...
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Drugs, Vaccines and Therapeutics
, Microbiology
by ruth on December 5, 2007
An aerosol preparation of live <span style=" />Haemophilus influenzae delivered to the lungs of mice has been found set off a healthy immune response and provided powerful protection agai...
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Microbiology
by ruth on September 20, 2007
Researchers from the University at Buffalo have filed several patents related to genetically engineering microorganisms, such as E. coli, into tiny "cellular factories" to produce pharmaceut...
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Diagnostics, Methodologies and Instrumentation
, Microbiology
by ruth on August 31, 2007
Researchers have discovered that morphological changes in an aquatic microbe may be used as a biosensor to determine levels of toxic heavy metals and metal-like substances in air or water.
Andrew M...
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Microbiology
by ruth on August 30, 2007
Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc, and the Society for Applied Microbiology (SfAM) announced today publication of the ...
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Microbiology
by ruth on August 8, 2007
Cornell University scientists have discovered that a novel group of E. coli bacteria - containing genes similar to those described in uropathogenic and avian pathogenic E. coli and enteropathogenic ba...
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Diagnostics, Methodologies and Instrumentation
, Microbiology
by ruth on July 17, 2007
Austrian researchers have developed a miniaturized, flexible fiber tips for allowing the laser to be used in endodontic (root canal) treatment. Such high-tech dental lasers which were mainly used to p...
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Food and Agriculture
, Microbiology
by ruth on June 26, 2007
As presented recently by Dutch researchers at the Cereals & Europe meeting in Montpellier, France; the novel alpha-glucan produced by the bacteria Lactobacillus reuteri - Reuteran- may already be ...
