A bacterial gene is the minimal contiguous stretch of DNA in a bacterium that contains the expressed and regulatory sequences sufficient to complement the function of a null mutation in trans. Cis ...

Indonesia launches a new passport to coincide with the 79th anniversary of the Republic of Indonesia. The cover of the Indonesian passport, which was previously colored green, has now changed to ...

Moreover, the mechanism of this biodegradation was likely mediated through bacterial esterase activity. Doxycycline achieved similar inhibition by completely eradicating S. mutans with its antibiotic ...

Flu isn’t a bacterial condition ― both it and the flu are viral illnesses. So antibiotics, which are designed to fight bacteria and not viruses, won’t do anything for a cold or flu.

State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, P. R. China Department of Applied Biology, East China University of Science and ...

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In a recent study, published in the journal Nature Microbiology, researchers found that zinc plays a vital role in how some of the world's most dangerous bacteria resist antibiotics. Eric Brown ...

Antimicrobial resistance is the ability of microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi or protozoans to grow despite exposure to antimicrobial substances designed to inhibit their growth. Microbes can ...

Sulfa drugs are synthetic (man-made) medications made from sulfanilamide that contain antibacterial properties. Sulfa drugs were the first class of antibiotics ever discovered. However, many other ...

Attachment of potential cultivable primo-colonizing bacteria and its implications on the fate of low-density polyethylene (LDPE) plastics in the marine environment. Unraveling the atomic-level ...

Comprising a carbon skeleton, antibiotics should be amenable to microbial biodegradation, but this is still largely uncharted territory because of their simultaneous strong toxicity. In this study, we ...