Washington, Mar 31 : A new generation of natural antibiotics-called nisin variants-can now kill food bacteria and other pathogens that cause food-related diseases.
Bio-engineered by researchers at University College Cork, nisin can kill harmful micro-organisms such as MRSA and the food-borne pathogen, Listeria monocytogenes.
Nisin is an antimicrobial protein produced naturally by a bacterium called Lactococcus lactis.
Washington, Mar 31 : Scientists at the UCL Eastman Dental Institute have developed a new tool to combat hospital-acquired infections- antibacterial coating that is activated by light.
The research team, led by Zoie Aiken, have tested the new coating with antibacterial properties, and found that it could kill 99.9 percent of Escherichia coli bacteria when a white hospital light was shone on its surface to activate it.
Washington, March 31 : Researchers at the universities of Leicester and Oxford in the UK have identified a single gene responsible for controlling plant growth responses to elevated temperature, a breakthrough that could potentially have an enormous impact on crop production as global warming increases.
Washington, March 31: A space experiment conducted by Italian scientists has for the first time shown that a lack of resistance, that is gravity, activates bone-destroying cells.
An article on the study says that the finding attains significance as it may help better understand why bedridden patients and astronauts experience bone loss.
Published in The FASEB Journal, the article also says that the outcome provides an entirely new drug target for stopping the process.
Washington, March 31 : In a new research, a scientist has suggested that chimpanzees are four times stronger than humans because our nervous systems exert more control over our muscles, thus preventing great feats of strength.
The research was done by evolutionary biologist Alan Walker, a professor at Penn State University.
Walker argues that humans may lack the strength of chimps because our nervous systems exert more control over our muscles.
Our fine motor control prevents great feats of strength, but allows us to perform delicate and uniquely human tasks.
Washington, Mar 31 : While analysing a mysterious neurological affliction in cats, scientists have found that their central nervous system has a unique ability to repair itself and restore function.
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have revealed that myelin restoration in cats can lead to functional recovery.
Myelin is a fatty insulator of nerve fibres that degrades in a host of human central nervous system disorders, the most common of which is multiple sclerosis.
Washington, Mar 31 : A new generation of natural antibiotics-called nisin variants-can now kill food bacteria and other pathogens that cause food-related diseases.
Washington, Mar 31 : Scientists at the UCL Eastman Dental Institute have developed a new tool to combat hospital-acquired infections- antibacterial coating that is activated by light.
Washington, March 31 : Researchers at the universities of Leicester and Oxford in the UK have identified a single gene responsible for controlling plant growth responses to elevated temperature, a breakthrough that could potentially have an enormous impact on crop production as global warming increases.
Washington, March 31: A space experiment conducted by Italian scientists has for the first time shown that a lack of resistance, that is gravity, activates bone-destroying cells.
Washington, March 31 : In a new research, a scientist has suggested that chimpanzees are four times stronger than humans because our nervous systems exert more control over our muscles, thus preventing great feats of strength.
Washington, Mar 31 : While analysing a mysterious neurological affliction in cats, scientists have found that their central nervous system has a unique ability to repair itself and restore function.
