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Potential New Source for Drugs to Fight Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Found Deep in Arctic Ocean
"Promising" antibiotic candidates were found by Finnish scientists in microbes under the seafloor in the Arctic Ocean.
70% of all currently licensed antibiotics have been...
Honey Added to Yogurt Bolsters its Bacterial Benefits–a Classic Greek Dessert Turned Medicine
A new study found that adding honey to yogurt helps the beneficial bacteria in the yogurt survive longer in the hostile environment of the...
New Way of Protecting Tomatoes From Deadly Bacteria Lets Plants Sniff Out Danger Naturally
A new spray that protects tomatoes from a deadly bacteria has been dubbed the ‘aroma of resistance’ because it allows plants to ‘sniff out’...
Woman Who Nearly Died After Bacteria Ate Her Nose Says Baking Soda Saved Her Life
A woman who nearly died after a deadly bacteria ate away the tip of her nose credits baking soda with saving her life.
Beatrice Johnson...
Specific Gut Bacteria That Triggers Compulsive Eating Identified by Scientists Who Also Found Bacteria to Prevent it
Compulsive eating and obesity may be triggered by a specific gut bacteria, suggests a new study—and the breakthrough may lead to new treatments to...
$25.00 ‘Bacteria Batteries’ Allow Farmers to Power Their Sensing Equipment with Soil
A UK ag-tech firm is pioneering bacterial batteries that they hope will allow farmers in the future to collect precise data about soil conditions...
Tomato Juice Can Kill Salmonella and Other Bacteria with Its Super Anti-Microbial Properties
Scientists have shown that tomato juice kills a particular bacteria responsible for Typhoid fever, a debilitating tropical disease, in addition to other bacteria that...
Scientists Hail New Antibiotic That Can Kill Drug-Resistant Bacteria
An entirely new kind of antibiotic has been found to be 100% successful in animal trials in eliminating one of three antibiotic-resistant infections believed...
Scientists Engineered a Bacteria to Eat Plastic Bottles and Transforming Them into Useful Liquids
Plastic-chomping bacteria could transform plastic bottles into make-up, drugs, and perfumes, according to a new study.
University of Edinburgh scientists engineered a simple E. coli...
Peanut and Food Allergies May Be Reversed with Compound Produced by Healthy Gut Bacteria
Why do we need fiber? it feeds the bacteria in our gut, which in turn produces something that could prevent food allergies and irritations...
Healthy Gut Bacteria Can Reduce Risk of Asthma and Food Allergies in Children, Experts Discover
Babies and young children with diverse bacteria in their gut are less likely to develop allergy-related wheezing and asthma, according to a new Australian...
Scientists Manage to Generate Electricity From the Deadly E-coli Bacteria in New Breakthrough
Scientists have managed to generate electricity from the deadly E-coli bacteria—a finding that could lead to a valuable by-product from waste water.
Bioelectronic experts from...
A Powerful Antibiotic That Can Tackle Superbugs Has Been Discovered in the ‘Dark Matter’ of Bacteria
A new drug, called Clovibactin, has been created out of "dark matter bacteria" which rather than being a research term, was created by the...
Neglected 80-year-old Antibiotic Reemerges as Highly-Effective Against Resistant Bacteria
A discarded 80-year-old antibiotic may provide protection against multi-drug resistant superbugs, according to a new study.
Discovered back in the 1940s, nourseothricin is a natural...
Plant Toxins Fatal to Sugarcane Hailed as the ‘New Weapon’ Antibiotic in Fight Against Bacteria
The threat of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections has been growing across human civilization for years, but a new look at a plant pathogen discovered years...
Specific Gut Bacteria Extract More Energy Which Seems to be Associated with Obesity
Certain hyper-efficient microbe species in our guts could be the reason why some people gain weight and others don't, proving once again how much...
Manuka Honey Could Help to Clear Deadly Bacteria Which Cause Cystic Fibrosis
Combining Manuka honey with a common drug was able to help clear a bacterial infection that's drug resistant and occasionally lethal.
Furthermore the addition of...
When Antibiotics Failed, She Found a Natural Enemy of Superbug Bacteria to Save Husband’s Life
Tom Patterson was dying in a U.S. hospital from a massive bacterial infection he’d contracted while traveling in Egypt. Doctors gave him a prognosis...
Magnets Made by Soil Bacteria Offer Hope for Breast and Prostate Cancer
In a "bugs as drugs" approach, medical researchers in England are using living bacterial magnets to guide viruses engineered to attack cancer tumors.
This process,...
Protein ‘Motors’ Can Swim Around Wounds to Kill Bacteria –And Deliver Lifesaving Drugs
An engineer in Barcelona has been adapting silicon nanobots to deliver things like antibiotics to open wounds, and has even created little "motors" to...