Medical Xpress

MARCH 1, 2023

A new study led by researchers at Harvard Medical School details the step-by-step cascade that allows bacteria to break through the brain's protective layers—the meninges—and cause brain infection, or meningitis, a highly fatal disease.

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 1, 2023

Previous studies suggested that gut bacteria, the microorganisms that live in the human digestive tract, play a role in Parkinson's disease, another neurodegenerative disorder, but the bacteria involved in DLB had not been identified.

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AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

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Scienmag

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Bacteria are known for breaking down lactose to make yogurt and sugar to make beer. Now researchers led by Northwestern University and LanzaTech have harnessed bacteria to break down waste carbon dioxide (CO2) to make valuable industrial chemicals.

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Drug Discovery World

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

An Oxford University study has provided the first evidence that antibiotic resistant bacteria can travel from the gut to the lung, increasing the risk of deadly infections. . With AMR being an increasing concern in hospitals, preventing the spread of AMR bacteria to other vital organs such as the lung is critical in vulnerable patients.

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 7, 2023

Researchers have developed a novel combination therapy using an anticancer agent, mitoxantrone (MTX), together with an antibiotic, vancomycin, for treating bacteria that are resistant to the vancomycin, which is also known as vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis (VRE).

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AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Do bacteria mutate randomly, or do they mutate for a purpose? Researchers have been puzzling over this conundrum for over a century. In 1943, microbiologist Salvador Luria and physicist turned biologist Max Delbrück invented an experiment to argue that bacteria mutated aimlessly.

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Scienmag

JANUARY 5, 2022

Researchers from the University of Louisville School of Dentistry and their colleagues have discovered details of how proteins produced by oral epithelial cells protect humans against viruses entering the body through the mouth. LOUISVILLE, Ky.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified the bacteria most commonly found in severe oral infections. Few such studies have been done before, and the team now hopes that the study can provide deeper insight into the association between oral bacteria and other diseases.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 20, 2023

Gut bacteria that break down a sugar called fucose could be dampening our immune response to the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine, according to a study led by researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST).

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Medical Xpress

JANUARY 31, 2023

Carriers of a specific hidden bacteria have a 14% chance of developing an antibiotic resistant infection with 30 days of hospitalization, according to researchers from Amsterdam UMC.

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Scienmag

JULY 21, 2022

A first-of-its-kind sprayable coating that can prevent the surface spread of infection from bacteria and viruses – including COVID-19 – over a sustained period –– has been developed by a team of Australian researchers.

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Scienmag

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

For decades, a small group of cutting-edge medical researchers have been studying a biochemical, DNA tagging system, which switches genes on or off. Many have studied it in bacteria and now some have seen signs of it in, plants, flies, and even human brain tumors. However, according to a new study by researchers at the […].

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Scienmag

MAY 2, 2022

A newly published study by researchers at the University of Hawai‘i at M?noa noa revealed that bacteria alter their swimming patterns when they get into tight spaces—making a beeline to escape from confinement. 2022 A newly published study by researchers at the University of Hawai‘i at M?noa Credit: Lynch et al.,

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 9, 2023

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered how healthy bacteria can escape the intestine, travel to lymph nodes and cancerous tumors elsewhere in the body, and boost the effectiveness of certain immunotherapy drugs.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

A team of researchers at Duke University has developed a vaccine against uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC), the type of bacteria that cause urinary tract infections (UTIs) in humans.

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Medical Xpress

JANUARY 25, 2023

Scientific claims that babies harbor live bacteria while still in the womb are inaccurate, and may have impeded research progress, according to University College Cork (UCC) researchers at APC Microbiome Ireland, a world-leading Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Research Center, which led a perspective published today in the journal Nature.

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Scienmag

MARCH 7, 2022

When exposed to stress, bacteria allow their metabolism to take a break during which they suppress, for example, the incorporation of proteins into membranes. The research group led by Marburg biochemist Gert Bange has reported their findings in […].

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Scienmag

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

An international research team have discovered a specific type of gut bacteria in bees that can improve memory. An international research team have discovered a specific type of gut bacteria in bees that can improve memory.

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Scienmag

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The research, involving URV researcher Vladimir Baulin, opens the door to the development of new bactericide materials as an alternative to antibiotics Credit: Vladimir Baulin Finding alternatives to antibiotics is one of the biggest challenges facing the research community.

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Scienmag

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Scientists have spotted signs of ‘pre-resistance’ in bacteria for the first time – signs that particular bacteria are likely to become resistant to antibiotics in the future – in a new study led by UCL and Great Ormond Street Hospital researchers.

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 1, 2023

A large team of cancer researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in Germany, working with a colleague from the U.S., has discovered some of the ways gut bacteria can positively impact treatments for cancer.

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Scienmag

APRIL 28, 2022

Newcastle University scientists have found new types of plastic loving bacteria that stick to plastic in the deep sea that may enable them to ‘hitchhike’ across the ocean.

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Scienmag

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Researchers at Uppsala University have discovered that the ancestors of legionella bacteria infected eukaryotic cells as early as two billion years ago. It happened soon after eukaryotes began to feed on bacteria.

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Scienmag

APRIL 14, 2021

Credit: Surajit Chatterjee To better understand how RNA in bacteria gives rise to protein–and along the way, target these processes in the design of new antibiotics–researchers are turning their attention to the unique way this process happens in bacteria.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Sugar substitutes found in many supermarket foods have been shown to kill off antibiotic-resistant bacteria that cause pneumonia and sepsis. Three artificial sweeteners used in products such as diet drinks, yogurts and desserts dramatically halt the growth of multidrug-resistant priority pathogens.

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 8, 2023

Combining discoveries in cancer immunology with sophisticated genetic engineering, Columbia University researchers have created a sort of "bacterial suicide squad" that targets tumors, attracting the host's own immune cells to the cancer to destroy it.

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Scienmag

JANUARY 3, 2022

Some bacteria cause inflammation, leading to periodontitis and other systemic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes. The microbes that live inside our mouths, collectively known as the oral microbiome, impact our overall health in many ways that are not yet fully understood.

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 8, 2024

“New antibiotics directed against the world’s highest priority bacteria, like Acinetobacter baumannii , require novel development paths. It inhibits the LptB2FGC complex, the machinery that assembles the outer membrane of gram-negative bacteria. Despite the threat, no new antibiotic chemical class with activity against A.

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Scienmag

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Credit: UM photo MISSOULA – University of Montana researchers and their partners have discovered a slimy strategy used by bacteria to defeat antibiotics and other drugs used to combat infections afflicting people with cystic fibrosis. The research was published Feb. 23 in the journal Cell Reports.

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 1, 2023

A team of researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now discovered that the success of this process depends to a large extent on gut bacteria. When parts of the liver are removed, the body can replace the missing tissue.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Bacteria known to cause oral infections may also be a contributory factor in patients developing potentially life-threatening abscesses on the brain, new research has shown.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The gut microbiome is the largest portion of the body's collection of bacteria and other microbes that live in and on the body, according to the National Cancer Institute. Researchers found physical activity was also beneficial to obese cancer patients, who typically have a less healthy gut microbiome.

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Scienmag

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

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

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Scienmag

APRIL 13, 2022

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A species of bacteria that infect corn crops compel their hosts to produce a feast of nutrients that keeps the pathogens alive and thriving long before they start to kill the plant’s cells, new research shows.

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XTalks

AUGUST 26, 2020

Increasing research into the gut microbiome has revealed new and emerging roles for the ‘good bacteria’ in our bodies, with the latest being a new study that shows how they can help the immune system attack cancer cells. Related: Characterizing the Tumor Microbiome: Bacteria Found in Tumors May Predict Response to Therapy.

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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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