Well, perhaps not quite Shaquille O'Neal. But it is Shaq-teria. The secret to an unusual bacterium's massive size -- it's the size of a grain of salt, or a million times bigger than E. coli bacteria, ...
... psyllaurous." Liberibacter, she explained, is the genus – a category of biological classification – in which the bacterium is nested; psyllaurous means psyllid yellows in Latin.
"Allison has a ...
... the invader with a nutrient-rich meal, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found. The bacterium, a relative of the one that causes cholera, co-opts and makes fatal a normal cell process ...
... has learned through evolution to coat itself with a sugar called mannose, which makes the bacterium attractive to cells in the lungs that are looking to clean up and discard unwanted sugar in the ...
Researchers believe the lack of a specific bacterium in the gut may be a cause of Crohn's disease.
... met and was enchanted by a particularly lovely photosynthetic bacterium. He took her inside his ... planned, the two fused into a single organism. The bacterium gave the amoeba the new ability to absorb ...
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What's next for M. lepromatosis
The team is working to better understand the bacterium and how it causes DLL. They are attempting to sequence the entire M. lepromatosis genome and looking for ...
... the spread of invasive zebra and quagga mussels in American lakes and rivers have found a bacterium that appears to be fatal to the problematic species without affecting native mussels or freshwater ...
... from Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin, Australia have found that the soil bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei, which causes the emerging infectious disease melioidosis in humans and ...
... been identified, and called Francisella philomiragia noatunensis. The disease caused by the bacterium is now called francisellosis and is listed in the national disease register and regulated under ...
... for analyzing them. Using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, scientists have now, for the first time, solved the structure of a protein within a living cell, the bacterium Escherichia coli.
... by characterizing the unique structure and mechanism of an enzyme in M. tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes the disease. Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Barbara Gerratana, in ...
... to combat active and asymptomatic (latent) tuberculosis infections by characterizing the unique structure and mechanism of an enzyme in M. tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes the disease.
... . "The findings in this study provide new prospects for the wider application of this bacterium as a factory for the production and characterization of oxygen-sensitive proteins through the use of ...
BLACKSBURG, Va., June 23 (UPI) -- An international collaboration of scientists has completed the genome sequencing of the Azotobacter vinelandii soil bacterium, U.S. researchers said.
