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View ArticleScienceShot: Toads Keep Their Brains Germ-Free – ScienceNOW
“By performing genetic analyses and mass spectrometry on ground-up toad brains, the researchers found 79 different antimicrobial peptides—the widest variety ever seen in the brain of any animal.” As...
View ArticlePLoS ONE: The Gut as Reservoir of Antibiotic Resistance: Microbial Diversity...
“These findings reinforce the notion that the human GIT is currently a relevant environment for the spread of antibiotic resistances, even in the case of young infants that solely ingest maternal milk....
View ArticlePLoS Pathogens: Selection of Resistant Bacteria at Very Low Antibiotic...
“These results add another dimension to the evolution of resistance and suggest that the low antibiotic concentrations found in many natural environments are important for enrichment and maintenance of...
View ArticleSuperbugs Predate Wonder Drugs – ScienceNOW
“It’s a “carefully done study,” adds George Church, a geneticist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. “Non-scientists (and even scientists) forget how important it is to confirm...
View ArticleAnother step forward in the future of anti-microbials
Title: PLoS ONE: Antifungal Activity of Microbial Secondary Metabolites “Secondary metabolites are well known for their ability to impede other microorganisms. Reanalysis of a screen of natural...
View ArticleVampire-like Predatory Bacteria Could Become A Living Antibiotic : Discover...
“What’s the news: If bacteria had blood, the predatory microbe Micavibrio aeruginosavorus would essentially be a vampire: it subsists by hunting down other bugs, attaching to them, and sucking their...
View ArticleBacterial genomics: A new source of antimicrobial targets : Nature Reviews...
“Bacterial clone-based genome sequencing frequently results in gaps, which harbour hypothetical genes of unknown function. Sorek and colleagues show that these gaps contain a vast array of genes...
View ArticleGenome Sequence of E. coli O104:H4 Leads to Rapid Development of a Targeted...
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