Search Results for 'Bacteria'

Billion-year-old bacteria 'created'

A team at Waikato University has used new computational techniques to make accurate predictions about the size, shape and composition of proteins from ancient bacteria, 'Journal of Molecular Biology and Evolution' reported. The [...]

Posted On : Nov, 02 2011 | Comments : 0

Engineered bacteria armed to fight infection

Scientists have taken a common bacteria found in the body and engineered it to a form that will seek out and destroy a potentially harmful microbe. The team at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has designed harmless E. [...]

Posted On : Aug, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Bacteria, Genetics, and Rick Astley

A grab bag of biotech thoughts - Back in March I wrote about Theravance's antibiotic televancin, and its tortuous path toward approval. Recap: Televancin was initially submitted to the Food and Drug Administration in 2007. It was delayed b [...]

Posted On : Sep, 15 2009 | Comments : 0

Bacteria make computers look like pocket calculators

Computers are evolving – literally. While the tech world argues netbooks vs notebooks, synthetic biologists are leaving traditional computers behind altogether. A team of US scientists have engineered bacteria that can solve complex m [...]

Posted On : Jul, 25 2009 | Comments : 0

Bacterial Ecosystems Abound On Our Skin

The human body contains 10 times as many bacterial cells as it does human cells. Biologists have now taken a census of the bacteria that live on our skin, and it turns out that the diversity of life there is quite remarkable. The bacteria b [...]

Posted On : May, 30 2009 | Comments : 0

Samsung preps 'antibacterial' netbook

The Korean manufacturer announced its plans for the device on Friday. The netbook will have a non-gloss, 10.2-inch LED screen with a 1,024x600-pixel resolution. As it has a six-cell battery, Samsung claims the 1.33kg mini-laptop will be a [...]

Posted On : Sep, 22 2008 | Comments : 0

Marine Bacteria

To live on the ocean floor, some bacteria have developed unique chemical properties--some of which may help us fight cancer. Bacteria that live in mucky ocean sediments have recently yielded a treasure trove of potential cancer drugs. O [...]

Posted On : Aug, 06 2007 | Comments : 0

Dirty Bacteria

More and more disease-causing germs are becoming resistant to antibiotics. To learn more about the problem, some scientists may literally have to do some digging. Dirt-dwelling bacteria may hold the key to understanding antibiotic-resistan [...]

Posted On : Jul, 17 2007 | Comments : 0

Dirty Bacteria

Dirt-dwelling bacteria may hold the key to understanding antibiotic-resistant germs. This according to biochemist Gerry Wright of McMaster University in Canada. He explains that soil bacteria constantly fight each other with natural antib [...]

Posted On : Jul, 04 2007 | Comments : 0

Bacteria

Bacteria, since they are prokaryotes, lack a nuclear membrane and membrane-bound organelles. Biochemical processes that normally occur in a choloroplast or mitochondrion of eukaryotes will take place in the cytoplasm of prokaryotes. Bacteri [...]

Posted On : Mar, 18 2007 | Comments : 0

Bacterial Walls, Plummeting Downward

The first detailed images of drug target on the outer wall of bacteria may provide scientists with enough new information to aid design of novel antibiotics. The drugs are much needed to treat deadly infections initiated by Staphylococcus a [...]