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How bacteria adapt their machinery for optimum growth

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Bioinformatics: publication in Nature Communications The most important components for the functioning of a biological cell are its proteins. As a result, protein production is arguably the most important process for cell growth. The faster the bacterial growth rate, the faster protein synthesis needs to take place.

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For bacteria, a small genome means some serious decluttering — even in the ribosome

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Researchers from Skoltech, Lomonosov Moscow State University, and the Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems have studied the genomes of some 200 strains of bacteria to determine which proteins in the ribosome, part of the key cell machinery, can be safely lost and why.

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Antibiotic resistance may spread even more easily than expected

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Credit: Jan Zrimec/Chalmers University of Technology Pathogenic bacteria in humans are developing resistance to antibiotics much faster than expected. Now, computational research at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, shows that one reason could be significant genetic transfer between bacteria in our ecosystems and to humans.

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The microbiome in precision medicine

Drug Discovery World

This leap in understanding, which has been facilitated by the emergence of next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies and bioinformatics tools such as artificial intelligence (AI), has brought forward a new wave of precision medicine resources, diagnostics, and therapeutics specifically aiming to leverage the microbiome.

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Researchers develop technique to functionally identify and sequence soil bacteria one cell at a time

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Credit: LIU Yang Researchers from the Single-Cell Center at the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a technique to sort and sequence the genome of bacteria in soil one bacterial cell at a time, while also identifying what its function is in the soil environment. […]. (..)