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Suppressing Activity of Common Intestinal Bacteria Reduces Tumor Growth
12.5.2010 | Press monitoring
A team of University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researchers has discovered that common intestinal bacteria appear to promote tumor growths in genetically susceptible mice, but that tumorigenesis can be suppressed if the mice are exposed to an inhibiting protein enzyme.
Putting Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance Into Reverse
5.5.2010 | Press monitoring
The use of antibiotics to treat bacterial infections causes a continual and vicious cycle in which antibiotic treatment leads to the emergence and spread of resistant strains, forcing the use of additional drugs leading to further multi-drug resistance.
Scientists Discover Key Step for Regulating Embryonic Development
28.4.2010 | Press monitoring
Deleting a gene in mouse embryos caused cardiac defects and early death, leading researchers to identify a mechanism that turns developmental genes off and on as an embryo matures, a team led by a scientist at The University of Texas.
Scientists scent breakthrough in truffle trafficking
21.4.2010 | Press monitoring
One of Europe's gastronomic jewels, the fabled black Perigord truffle, has been genetically unravelled, a feat that could doom fakers who pass off inferior truffles as the real thing.
Human enzyme breaks down potentially toxic nanomaterials
14.4.2010 | Press monitoring
An international study based at the University of Pittsburgh provides the first identification of a human enzyme that can biodegrade carbon nanotubes—the superstrong materials found in products from electronics to plastics—and in laboratory tests offset the potentially damaging health effects of being exposed to the tiny components, according to...
Microscope reveals how bacteria breathe toxic metals
7.4.2010 | Press monitoring
Researchers are studying some common soil bacteria that “inhale” toxic metals and “exhale” them in a non-toxic form.
Bakterie proti horečce dengue
4.4.2010 | Press monitoring
Dengue fever is transmitted by mosquitoes, endangering this way 2.5 billion people. Treatment or vaccine is still missing, but scientists at the University of Michigan found that in the battle with the disease they have an invisible ally.
Bacteria produce oxygen even without light
31.3.2010 | Press monitoring
The molecular secrets of a bacterium which produces its own oxygen to use the green house gas methane have been unravelled
Acne drug prevents HIV breakout
24.3.2010 | Press monitoring
Johns Hopkins scientists have found that a safe and inexpensive antibiotic in use since the 1970s for treating acne effectively targets infected immune cells in which HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, lies dormant and prevents them from reactivating and replicating.
Development of More Muscular Trout Could Boost Commercial Aquaculture
17.3.2010 | Press monitoring
A 10-year effort by a University of Rhode Island scientist to develop transgenic rainbow trout with enhanced muscle growth has yielded fish with what have been described as six-pack abs and muscular shoulders that could provide a boost to the commercial aquaculture industry.
