All UK & Rest of Europe articles – Page 82
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Gamechanging team-up sees Halomonas turn out three products in single fermentation process
For the first time, researchers have managed to produce three products in three separate phase states in a single process carried out by a microbe.
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Sneaky pathogenic fungi hide from ants by dialling down their natural signals
Scientists have revealed that pathogenic fungi reduce their chemical detection signals to outplay social immunity among their social ant hosts.
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Scientists discover unknown circovirus involved in human hepatitis
Scientists have identified a previously unknown species of circovirus, provisionally named human circovirus 1 (HCirV-1).
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Quail could be mystery reservoir for Tuscany and Sicilian viruses
The quail could be the unknown reservoir of the Toscana virus (TOSV) and the Sandfly Fever Sicilian virus (SFSV), mosquito-borne pathogens that can infect domestic animals and also cause disease in humans.
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AMI putting together recommendations to support UK government action on AMR
Applied Microbiology International is putting together recommendations for the UK to deliver its five-year action plan on tackling antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the run-up to 2030.
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Researchers uncover how new class of antimalarial compounds can target parasite
Researchers at Imperial College London, UK, have discovered how a new class of antimalarial compounds can target and kill the malaria parasite in a unique way.
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Common eye infection antibiotic tablet may clear up treatment-resistant sex bug
An oral antibiotic tablet used to treat common eye infections may prove an effective medicine for a sexually transmitted bug that has become resistant to usual recommended treatment.
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Vexed concept of a ‘foetal microbiome’ refuted
A team of international experts has refuted scientific claims that human foetuses harbour live microbes during healthy pregnancies.
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Experts refute theory that humans are colonised by bacteria before birth
Scientific claims that babies harbour live bacteria while still in the womb are inaccurate, and may have impeded research progress, according to University College Cork (UCC) researchers at APC Microbiome Ireland, a world-leading Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Research Centre.
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Nanobodies spur Nod factor receptors into forming root nodules
Engineering root nodule symbiosis into cereals has come a step closer with the use of nanobodies to spur Nod factor receptors into initiating nodule formation.
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Chemical-loving bacteria were source of sulphuric acid that carved out Pyrenees cave systems
Scientists have used isotopes of sulphur to fingerprint the sources of sulphuric acid that have carved unique and beautiful cave systems in the Pyrenees mountains of southern France.
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Researchers develop targeted test for antibiotic resistance in clinical Enterobacter species
A large-scale DZIF study has achieved a breakthrough and clarified the relationships between the numerous Enterobacter species as well as optimised resistance testing.
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Soil organisms are key to high functioning of city parks and gardens
A new global study highlights the fundamental role of soil biodiversity in maintaining the functioning of the world’s parks and gardens.
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Sugar cane pathogen delivers promising new antibiotic candidate
A potent plant toxin with a unique way of killing harmful bacteria has emerged as one of the strongest new antibiotic candidates in decades.
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Scientists create computer simulation based on digital microbes
Researchers at University of Galway associated with APC Microbiome Ireland, a world-leading SFI Research Centre, have created a resource of over 7,000 digital microbes – enabling computer simulations of how drug treatments work and how patients may respond. The resource is a milestone in scientific understanding of human response to ...
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Rhodococcus reveals where missing plastic in world’s oceans could have gone
The bacterium Rhodococcus ruber eats and actually digests plastic - as revealed in laboratory experiments by PhD student Maaike Goudriaan at Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ).
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Researcher creates world first computational reconstruction of virus in entirety
An Aston University researcher has created the first ever computer reconstruction of a virus, including its complete native genome.
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Callum Cooper appointed Deputy Editor of Letters in Applied Microbiology
Applied Microbiology International is delighted to announce that Callum Cooper of Sunderland University has been appointed as the new Deputy Editor for Letters in Applied Microbiology.
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Membrane electrical potential influences antibiotic tolerance in bacteria
The electrical potential across the bacterial cell envelope indicates when bacteria no longer operate as individual cells but as a collective, according to researchers at the University of Cologne’s Institute for Biological Physics.
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New leaf: AMI’s PhD studentship winner Naina Korotania talks trees and phages
Naina Korotania, winner of the Basil Jarvis PhD Studentship, which is awarded by Applied Microbiology International, is poised to embark on a PhD at the Univeristy of Birmingham, developing novel phage-based biopesticides to target cankers in four tree species.