Science news articles about 'microbiology professor'

University of Central Florida Microbiology Professor Keith Ireton has uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that plays an important role in the spread of a deadly food-borne bacterium. Listeria ...

... , the presumed primary place of bacterial proliferation. In a paper published in Environmental Microbiology, Professor Elke Genersch and colleagues in Berlin explain that they have discovered that ...

... of the National Academy of Sciences. The findings confirm and extend the early work of Illinois microbiology professor Carl Woese, an author on the study. Woese was the first to look for signs of ...

University of Illinois microbiology professor William Metcalf and his collaborators have developed a way to mass- ... of I.'s Institute for Genomic Biology, chemistry professor Wilfred van der Donk, Zhao, ...

University of Illinois microbiology professor William Metcalf and his collaborators have developed a way to mass-produce an antimalarial compound, potentially making the treatment of malaria less ...

... oxygen species kill the bacteria by going into the cytoplasm and causing DNA damage," said medical microbiology professor James Slauch, who led the study. "You can find this idea over and over again ...

... "volume" of various genes involved in disease, according to Michael McManus, PhD, a UCSF microbiology professor and senior author on the paper. This process is known as RNA interference. Until now, ...

... "Archaea are really different from bacteria – as different from bacteria as we are," said University of Illinois microbiology professor Rachel Whitaker, who led the study. Whitaker has spent almost a ...

... a powerful clean-up tool for heavy metal pollution. Writing in the current issue of the journal, Microbiology, Professor Gejiao Wang and his colleagues from Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan, ...

... of a specific form of the progesterone receptor, called PRA, in mammary cell development," said microbiology professor Richard Schwartz, a co-author of the paper and associate dean in the College of ...