Feb. 6, 2025 — The researchers showed that when curcumin is intentionally given to bacteria as food and then activated by light, it can trigger deleterious reactions within these microbes ...

Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno60200, Czech Republic National Centre for Biomolecular Research, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno60200, Czech Republic ...

These highly variable domains could function as binding ... Peptidoglycan is highly abundant in Gram-positive bacteria, in which it accounts for approximately half of the mass of the cell wall.

All data analysis was performed using GraphPad Prism V 7.0 software (San Diego, CA, USA). Nonlinear regressions were performed and a sigmoidal curve with variable slope (Hill slope less than 7) were ...

The former wide spectrum “magic bullet,” imipenem, has been ousted by the emergence of carbapenem resistant (CR) pathogens. In endemic areas, infections with CR-bacteria occur in vulnerable patients, ...

Bacteria are organisms that consist of a single cell without a nucleus and with distinct structural, physiological and evolutionary characteristics. Bacteria form one of the three domains of life ...

This discovery could also have implications in studies of polymer-secreting conglomerations of bacteria known as biofilms—the slippery goo on river rocks, for example—and in industrial ...

All patients with suspected Gram-negative endocarditis should undergo transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) to confirm the diagnosis and assess for cardiac complications such as intracardiac ...

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Compared to sterile sand-grown seedlings, growth on soil added new microbial diversity to the plant, especially to rhizospheres; however, all 63 seed-transmitted bacterial OTUs were still present, and ...

Feb. 5, 2025 — A new study has found that certain bacteria were associated with better memory and attention, while others were linked to an increased risk of Alzheimer's ... Scientists Reveal ...

A vaginal pH exceeding a value of 4.5; The presence of so-called clue cells – vaginal epithelial cells with such a heavy coating of bacteria that ... As an alternative, Gram-stain-based ...