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New Technique Puts DNA Profiling Of E. Coli On Fast Track
17.3.2008 | Press monitoring
Using new genetic techniques, scientists are unlocking the secrets of how E coli bacteria contaminate food and make people sick.
How Antibiotic Resistant Bugs Became Resistant To Penicillin, And How Penicillin Could Work Again
16.3.2008 | Press monitoring
Research led by the University of Warwick has uncovered exactly how the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae has become resistant to the antibiotic penicillin. The same research could also open up MRSA to attack by penicillin and help create a library of designer antibiotics to use against a range of other dangerous bacteria.
Possibillities of new antibacterial products from insect-eating plants
15.3.2008 | Press monitoring
Japanese researchers have identified seven proteins in the carnivorous plant's fluid. These enzymes could give us **new antibacterial products** useful in agriculture and medicine.
The future of engineered agriculture
14.3.2008 | Press monitoring
The DC-based research and consulting firm Social Technologies recently released a series of 12 briefs that shed light on the top areas for technology innovation through 2025. The brief on engineered agriculture, by futurist Mark Justman, is the tenth trend in the series. Engineered agriculture uses the tools of biotechnology to analyze...
Handheld DNA detector
13.3.2008 | Press monitoring
In the International Journal of Nanotechnology was described a mathematical simulation to show how a new type of nanoscale transistor might be coupled to a DNA sensor system to produce a characteristic signal for specific DNA fragments in a sample.
Carbon nanotubes used to reprogramme adult human cells?
12.3.2008 | Press monitoring
A Californian biotech company claims that it has used carbon nanotubes to ‘reprogramme’ adult human cells to an embryonic-like state — a breakthrough that removes the elevated risk of cancer that blights other techniques.
Synthetic peptoids hold forth promise for new antibiotics
11.3.2008 | Press monitoring
Drug-resistant bacterial infections are a growing concern, and much research has been devoted to finding new classes of antibiotics to fight them.
Immune Cells Genetically Engineered Into Potent Weapons For Battling HIV
10.3.2008 | Press monitoring
By outfitting immune-system killer cells with a new pair of genes, scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University transformed them into potent weapons that destroy cells infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Their novel strategy of genetically engineering immune cells to redirect their infection-fighting...
Rain-making bacteria found around the world
8.3.2008 | Press monitoring
The same bacteria that cause frost damage on plants can help clouds to produce rain and snow. Studies on freshly fallen snow suggest that ‘bio-precipitation’ might be much more common than was suspected, Journal Nature
Nanomedicine System Engineered To Enhance Therapeutic Effects Of Injectable Drugs
7.3.2008 | Press monitoring
A proof-of-concept study on a new multistage delivery system (MDS) for imaging and therapeutic applications has been proposed in Nature Nanotechnology in an article authored by Mauro Ferrari, Ph.D., of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. This discovery could go a long way toward making injectable drugs more effective. "This...
