New Influenza Virus from Seals

 A new strain of influenza virus found in harbor seals could represent a threat to wildlife and human health, according to the authors of a study appearing July 31 in mBio®, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology. It is crucial to monitor viruses like this one, which originated in birds and adapted to infect mammals, the authors say, so that scientists can better...

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Tobacco Mosaic Virus possess something suicidal!!

http://images.sciencedaily.com/2012/07/120711134532.jpg A study led by Associate Prof. Kenji Nakahara at Hokkaido University in Japan has found　a component in tobacco that makes crop immune systems more resistant to viral attacks.Although crops have a general defense mechanism in order to fight against viruses, their invaders counteract this defense by suppressing the plant immune response. Evidence...

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Discover How Bacteria do Job on Your Intestinal wall to cause Cholera!!

http://images.sciencedaily.com/2012/07/120712144747.jpg A clever new imaging technique discovered at the University of California, Berkeley, reveals a possible plan of attack for many bacterial diseases, such as cholera, lung infections in cystic fibrosis patients and even chronic sinusitis, that form biofilms that make them resistant to antibiotics. Read More......

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The human body is essentially a "Germ Factory!!"

Germ theory delusions collapse as new science reveals healthy people carry 10,000 different germ strains at all times!A new study published as a series of reports in the journals Nature and Public Library of Science (PLoS) debunks...

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What Video Gamers have in Microbiology!!

Players of a 3D online computer game have provided the answer to a protein structure puzzle that could lead to new anti-retrovirus drugs. Read More... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8774220/Video-gamers-solve-microbiology-puzzle.html...

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Augmented 'Superdrugs' Could Wipe Out Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs

Researchers in Ireland believe they may have found a solution to the antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" that are increasingly stumping doctors: superdrugs.Over the past few months, the Centers for Disease Control and other medical experts have...

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Alert..Flesh-eating Bacteria is Back..

Mom stricken by flesh-eating bacteria slowly recovering....Necrotizing soft tissue infection is a rare but very severe type of bacterial infection. It can destroy the muscles, skin, and underlying tissue. The word "necrotizing" refers to something...

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Bacterial Studies started countdown to Outer Space!

 In a fjord in Canada scientists have found a landscape similar to one of Jupiter's icy moons: Europa. It consists of a frozen and sulphurous environment, where sulphur associated with Arctic bacteria offer clues for the upcoming missions in the search for traces of life on Europa.It is not easy to find a place on Earth where ice and sulphur come together, supposedly like on Europa, Jupiter's...

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Beware,Superbug! wants shop more..

Superbug Spreads from Big City Hospitals to Regional Health Centers, Study Suggests..Researchers found evidence that shows for the first time how the superbug spreads between different hospitals throughout the country.The University of Edinburgh...

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Finally, XMRV gets a "clean chit"

The retrovirus XMRV does not cause prostate cancer or chronic fatigue syndrome – that hypothesis was disproved by the finding that the virus was produced in the laboratory in the 1990s by passage of a prostate tumor in nude mice. A trio of new papers on the virus attempt to address questions about the serological detection of XMRV in prostate cancer, and further emphasize that XMRV is not...

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Bacterial Communication

Bacteria Can Communicate With Each Other Through Nanotubes, Researchers Discover..ScienceDaily (Mar. 2, 2011) — A pathway whereby bacteria communicate with each other has been discovered by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The discovery has important implications for efforts to cope with the spread of harmful bacteria in the body.Read more....

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Personal bacteria may help catch suspects

Forensic experts could one day use bacteria to prove who had touched an object, according to research By Randolph E. SchmidThe Associated Press WASHINGTON — Warning to criminals: Rubbing out your fingerprints may no longer be enough. Your germs could still give you away. It turns out the colonies of bacteria that live on people's hands are highly personal to each individual. Read more.....

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London: A new bacteria resistant steel developed by a British university is likely to be useful in hospitals and other places to prevent the spread of bacterial Diseases. Researchers have developed a technique that not only kills bacteria but is very hard and resistant to wear and tear during cleaning as it introduces silver or copper into the steel surface rather than coating it on the surface,...

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Newly Discovered Viral Genome talks new!

A study published in BioMed Central's Biology Direct journal reports the existence of a previously undetected group of viruses and, more importantly, a new type of viral genome that could have huge implications for theories of viral emergence and evolution. Viruses are the most abundant organisms on earth, yet little is known about their evolutionary history since they have exceptionally...

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70-Year-Old Chemical Mystery Solved: How Tropolone Are Synthesized in Fungi

Chemists and biologists from the University of Bristol have finally cracked one of the longest standing chemical mysteries. In a paper published April 16 inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team demonstrate exactly how an unusual class of compounds known as tropolones are synthesised in fungi. In 1942, an 'unidentifiable' aromatic compound known as stipitatic acid was first...

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A Temperature-Controlled Microbe

manufacturing processes rely on microorganisms to perform tricky chemical transformations or make substances from simple starting materials. The authors of a study appearing in mBio®, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, on April 17 have found a way to control a heat-loving microbe with a temperature switch: it makes a product at low temperatures but not at...

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Scientists Tailor Cell Surface Targeting System to Hit Organelle ZIP Codes

Scientists who developed a technology for identifying and targeting unique protein receptor ZIP Codes on the cellular surface have found a way to penetrate the outer membrane and deliver engineered particles -- called iPhage -- to organelles inside the cell. This new capacity was used to screen for peptide ligands -- binding agents -- that connect to receptors on mitochondria, which generate a...

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Levels of Germination Proteins in Dormant and Superdormant Spores of Bacillus subtilis

Bacillus subtilis spores that germinated poorly with saturating levels of nutrient germinants, termed superdormant spores, were separated from the great majority of dormant spore populations that germinated more rapidly. These purified superdormant spores (1.5 to 3% of spore populations) germinated extremely poorly with the germinants used to isolate them but better with germinants targeting...

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Study Shows Unified Process of Evolution in Bacteria and Sexual Eukaryotes

Bacteria are the most populous organisms on the planet. They thrive in almost every known environment, adapting to different habitats by means of genetic variations that provide the capabilities essential for survival. These genetic innovations arise from what scientists believe is a random mutation and exchange of genes and other bits of DNA among bacteria that sometimes confers an advantage, and...

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Method Developed to Detect Stealthy, 'Hypervirulent' Salmonella Strains

Salmonella is the most common cause of infection, hospitalization, and death due to foodborne illness in the U.S. This burden may continue to worsen due to the emergence of new strains that would tax current health-control efforts. To address this problem,...

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