May 12, 2008 Science – It seems like a peculiar case of genomic overkill: a single-celled bacterium has been found that keeps tens of thousands of copies of its genome. The finding sets a record for most genomes per cell, but also poses…
Science – It doesn't take brains to have some smarts. New research shows that even bacteria can evolve to predict upcoming events based on clues, like a dog salivating at the sound of the dinner bell.
Health & Fitness – Which? Magazine has found keyboards with 150 times the recommended limit of bacteria.
Science – Anaerobic bacteria that use metals to gain energy in the same way that humans use oxygen.
Health & Fitness – The threat of death-defying bacteria, stubborn organisms that refuse to be conquered by antibiotic medicines, is growing more alarming. Infectious microbes that used to be able to resist only one drug, such as penicillin…
Health & Fitness – A toilet isn't the only thing around that has a lot of bacteria.
Health & Fitness – You wash your hands often. You keep a bottle of hand sanitizer in your desk drawer at the office. And you certainly use a paper towel as a barrier between your and any public restroom door. But what about at home?…
Movies – Ray Ferrier is a dock worker who is finishing a night of work in the morning, because he works the night shift. But when he gets home his young daughter Rachel and teenage son Robbie are staying with him at his…
Health & Fitness – Syphilis, a potential permanent health damaging STD, is caused by a bacteria infection. This infection is passed around via sexual contact or to baby during
Health & Fitness – A consumer advocacy group in the UK finds that computer keyboards can harbor four times more pathogenic bacteria than a toilet seat. Be careful: don't want that Model M to turn into a Model MRSA.
Health & Fitness – Two million people each year now get hospital-borne bacterial infections, 1.4 million of them resistant to antibiotics and 90,000 of them lethal. Bacteriophages (aka "Phages") are viruses that kill specific strains…
Health & Fitness – C. diff has long been a common, usually benign bug associated with simple, easily treated diarrhea in older patients in hospitals and nursing homes. About 3 percent of healthy adults harbor the bacteria with no…
Science – Bacteria gang up on algae, quashing red tide blooms
Health & Fitness – Some computer keyboards harbour more harmful bacteria than a toilet seat, research has suggested. During the Which? tests in January this year, a microbiologist deemed one of the office's keyboards to be so dirty…
Health & Fitness – University of Iowa researchers have succeeded in wiping out established biofilms of Staphylococcus aureus (staph) by hijacking one of the bacteria's own regulatory systems. Although the discovery is not ready for…
News – One thing we never do during a long flight is head to the lavatory and pour ourselves a nice cool glass of tap water. We don't know anyone who does. But that's not stopping the Environmental Protection Agency from…
Family – If you don't trust (and you shouldn't) tap water, use a combination of carbon-block and ultraviolet water purifier; you can rest assured that your drinking and cooking water is as safe as it can be Most people don't…
Food – The very thing that makes raw milk dangerous, its dirtiness, may make people healthier, and pasteurization could be cleansing beneficial bacteria from milk. Milk as it emerges from the teat, it seems, is both panacea…
Science – A newly created microbe produces cellulose that can be turned into ethanol and other biofuels, report scientists from The University of Texas at Austin who say the microbe could provide a significant portion of…
Health & Fitness – Bacteria which lie dormant and impervious to antibiotics could be activated briefly before being killed off, say scientists.
Health & Fitness – Salmonella is an array of microscopic extant bacteria that live in intestinal tracts and are passed to and from human or animal via their feces. The most
Science – An investigation of the genes that govern spore formation in the bacteria B. subtilis shows that chance plays a significant role in determining which of the microbes sacrifice themselves for the colony and which…
Food – Does watching the news make you nervous about what you eat? With outbreaks of norovirus on cruise ships and E. coli being found in spinach and tacos, many people have become sick. In the E. coli cases, some have…
Science – When it comes to designing something, it's hard to find a better source of inspiration than Mother Nature. Using that principle, researchers are mimicking bacteria to synthesize magnetic nanoparticles that could…
Health & Fitness – Pound-for-pound, it's the strongest organism ever. This mighty beast is the gonorrhea bacterium ΓΆβ;¬" the strongest creature alive.
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