BioTech 365

AUGUST 24, 2021

Biotechnology, Pharma and Biopharma News – Research – Science – Lifescience ://Biotech-Biopharma-Pharma: Genetically engineered good bacteria could aid in combating disease.Our bodies are home to several bacterial species that help us maintain our health and wellbeing.

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Scienmag

MAY 26, 2021

Naturally occurring gut bacteria can clean up chemo toxins in the body, study finds Credit: Northwestern University In the human gut, good bacteria make great neighbors.

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Scienmag

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Potential new antibiotics work by disrupting bacterial membrane and summoning immune cells in animal models PHILADELPHIA–A team led by scientists in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has engineered powerful new antimicrobial molecules from toxic proteins found in wasp venom.

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BioTech 365

MAY 12, 2021

Biotechnology, Pharma and Biopharma News – Research – Science – Lifescience ://Biotech-Biopharma-Pharma: Engineered bacteria show promise for sustainable biofuel industry, researchers say.Acetone, a volatile solvent used for everything from removing nail polish and cleaning textiles to manufacturing plastics, could … Continue (..)

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BioTech 365

JUNE 30, 2021

Novome Biotechnologies Initiates Phase 1/2a Study to Evaluate Therapeutically Engineered Bacteria for the Treatment of Enteric Hyperoxaluria Novome Biotechnologies Initiates Phase 1/2a Study to Evaluate Therapeutically Engineered Bacteria for the Treatment of Enteric Hyperoxaluria – NOV-001 is the first therapeutically … Continue reading (..)

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Scienmag

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

engineers and chemists has taken a major step forward in the development of?microbial?fuel natural bacteria to extract electrons from organic matter in wastewater to generate electrical currents.?A engineers […]. fuel cells — a technology that?utilizes?natural A study detailing the breakthrough was recently published in?Science.?

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Scienmag

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

– Cornell University scientists have engineered a key plant enzyme and introduced it in Escherichia coli bacteria in order to create an optimal experimental environment for studying how to speed up photosynthesis, a holy grail for improving crop yields. Credit: Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MAY 12, 2023

Blood cancer patients with E coli infection are at risk of bacteria infecting the bloodstream. The research team has designed four bacterial viruses which use CRISPR technology to kill the unwanted bacteria precisely. The team then engineered the phages through gene editing to improve their targeting ability.

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XTalks

JULY 31, 2020

A study published in Nature on July 30, 2020 states that good bacteria living in our gut can do much more than just help digest food and boost our immune system. According to studies conducted by researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, the bacteria can help heal damaged intestinal tissues.

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Scienmag

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Some of the trillions of bacteria living in your […]. Well, it’s in your head, but some of it does truly start in the gastrointestinal tract. Credit: Tae Seok Lab/WashU That feeling in your gut? Well, it’s in your head, but some of it does truly start in the gastrointestinal tract.

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Scienmag

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Credit: Avalos Lab/Princeton University Researchers at Princeton University have created a new and improved way to more precisely control genetically engineered bacteria: by simply switching the lights on and off. Working in E.

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Scienmag

JULY 13, 2022

Credit: NTU Singapore Singapore Centre for Environmental Life […].

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Scienmag

DECEMBER 9, 2020

A new genetic approach can accelerate the study of phage-microbe interactions with implications for health, agriculture, and climate Credit: Wikimedia Commons Scientists are continually searching for new and improved ways to deal with bacteria, be it to eliminate disease-causing strains or to modify potentially beneficial strains.

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Scienmag

AUGUST 12, 2020

Credit: Purdue University photo/Mark Simons Your gut bacteria could say a lot about you, such as why you’re diabetic or how you respond to certain drugs. But scientists can see only so much of the gastrointestinal tract to study the role of gut bacteria in your health. What comes out of you is just a […].

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Scienmag

AUGUST 24, 2020

A team of researchers at University of Toronto Engineering and University of Michigan have modified an enzyme from bacteria to promote regrowth of nerve tissue Credit: Hettiaratchi, O’Meara et al.,

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BioSpace

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Proof of concept for the Genetically Engineered Microbial Medicines (GEMM) platform came in a recent first-in-human, Phase I trial.

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Scienmag

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Credit: RIKEN A research team at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan has succeeded in experimentally evolving the common bacteria Escherichia coli under pressure from a large number of individual antibiotics. In doing so, they were able to identify the mechanisms and constraints underlying evolved drug resistance.

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BioTech 365

MAY 19, 2021

Biotechnology, Pharma and Biopharma News – Research – Science – Lifescience ://Biotech-Biopharma-Pharma: New antimicrobial surface reduces bacteria build-up on medical instruments.Monash University researchers have engineered new antimicrobial surfaces that can significantly reduce the formation of bacteria on medical instruments, (..)

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Scienmag

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a gene therapy that helps heart muscle cells electrically activate in live mice. DURHAM, N.C.

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BioTech 365

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

coli bacteria offer path to improving photosynthesis.Cornell University scientists have engineered a key plant enzyme and introduced it in Escherichia coli bacteria in order to create … Continue reading →

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Scienmag

AUGUST 17, 2020

The research advances understanding of bacteria vulnerability and opens the door to new methods of fighting drug-resistant bacteria Credit: Russell Cothren FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.

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AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Centre for BioSystems Science and Engineering, has designed a new method to deliver a vaccine candidate for tuberculosis (TB). The research involves using spherical vesicles secreted by bacteria coated on gold nanoparticles which can then be delivered to the immune cells.

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Scienmag

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Bacteria are increasingly resistant to these drugs, and this resistance leads to the deaths of more […].

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Scienmag

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

USC researchers harness the power of living organisms to make materials that are strong, tolerant and resilient Credit: Qiming Wang, USC Viterbi School of Engineering Biological systems can harness their living cells for growth and regeneration, but engineering systems cannot.

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Scienmag

DECEMBER 3, 2020

A new study has found that a novel T cell genetically engineered by University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers is able to target and attack pathogenic T cells that cause Type 1 diabetes, which could lead to new immunotherapy treatments.

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Scienmag

AUGUST 17, 2020

17, 2020 — Oral bacteria are ready to spring into action the moment a dental hygienist finishes scraping plaque off a patient’s teeth. Eating sugar or other carbohydrates causes the bacteria to quickly rebuild this tough and sticky biofilm and to produce acids that corrode tooth enamel, leading to cavities. WASHINGTON, Aug.

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Scienmag

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

As one of the leading causes of death in hospitals, sepsis becomes more complicated with the rise in bacteria most resistant to some of today’s antibiotics. If physicians can detect onset earlier, treatments could begin sooner to improve patient mortality.

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STAT News

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In this video, we chat with health policy and drug pricing researcher Hussain Lalani; Julia Joung, a molecular biologist developing genetic screening technologies; and Avinash Manjula Basavanna, who researches engineered living materials and has developed a printable ink made from bacteria.

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Scienmag

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

But viruses can also infect life-sustaining bacteria and a Johns Hopkins University-led team has developed a test to determine if bacteria are sick, similar to the one used to test humans for COVID-19. The pandemic has made clear the threat that some viruses pose to people.

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Scienmag

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

In a landmark study of airborne microorganisms from ground level up to 3,500 metres, scientists from the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have found that bacteria and fungi populate the planet’s lower atmosphere in very specific ways and if changed, (..)

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XTalks

APRIL 19, 2023

Salmonella is a type of bacteria that can cause food poisoning in humans and is commonly found in foods like eggs, poultry, meat and dairy products. In the US alone, the bacteria is estimated to cause around 1.35 If Salmonella bacteria are present, they cut through the particles, allowing the molecule to escape.

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Scienmag

AUGUST 11, 2020

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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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 14, 2023

The therapy comprises liposomes engineered to capture the virulence factors, which are produced by a wide range of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. It acts as a competitive decoy for bacterial virulence factors that contribute to complications, sepsis, septic shock and death following infection.

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Scienmag

JANUARY 27, 2021

Credit: Judy Q. Yang Much of the earth’s carbon is trapped in soil, and scientists have assumed that potential climate-warming compounds would safely stay there for centuries. But new research from Princeton University shows that carbon molecules can potentially escape the soil much faster than previously thought.

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Scienmag

MARCH 2, 2021

Process paves a road to safe, ethical, and fast drug manufacturing Credit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute TROY, N.Y. — Envisioning an animal-free drug supply, scientists have — for the first time — reprogrammed a common bacterium to make a designer polysaccharide molecule used in pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals.

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Scienmag

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Goss’s bacterial wilt and leaf blight is one of the most damaging diseases affecting corn. The most effective way to control this disease is to plant corn varieties that are resistant to the disease. In other words, growers avoid the disease by growing certain varieties of corn. In part, this is the easiest method because […].

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Drug Discovery World

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Glox Therapeutics has raised £4.3M ($5.2M) in seed funding to develop targeted therapeutics against antibiotic-resistant Gram-negative bacteria. Glox Therapeutics is developing precision antibiotics using engineered protein bacteriocins.

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