Bioengineers from UC San Diego developed a simple technique of using bacteria as living test tubes to study human gene mutations and rapidly screen chemicals for their potential drug use. Image credit ...

Treatment of specimens - Bacteria were grown on Columbia agar supplemented with defibrinated sheep blood ... As results were in agreement with biochemical identification these strains were then ...

The following is a summary of “Bactogram: Spatial Analysis of Bacterial Colonisation in Epidermal Wounds,” published in the December 2024 issue of Dermatology by Wallblom et al. Skin barrier damage ...

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A range of techniques can be used for the identification and classification of bacteria. However, traditional biochemical and sequence-based approaches can be labour-intensive and slow. In this ...

Current tests for prostate cancer, such as the PSA test and a biopsy, are not always able to predict which cancers will be harmful. We hope that a new test that looks for the ABBS group of bacteria ...

Atmospheric-pressure nonthermal plasmas have demonstrated rapid lysis of bacterial spores such as Bacillis subtilis after a few minutes of ionized-gas exposure. This paper is focused on comparing the ...

Identification ... biochemical tests that are used for this task. Biochemical reactions can reveal the vital information necessary for accurately identifying the genera of various bacteria within ...

Viral pathogens have also extensively co‐opted the OTU fold to subvert host signaling, but the extent to which bacteria utilize the OTU fold was unknown. We have predicted and validated a set of OTU ...

Biochemical studies guided by the co-crystal structures enable the identification of 90 new actinobacteria that may be regulated by butenolides, two of which are experimentally verified. These studies ...