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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...
Scientists Link 5 Bacteria Types to Aggressive Prostate Cancer, Potentially Revolutionizing Treatment
Researchers have found a link between bacteria and aggressive forms of prostate cancer.
The University of East Anglia scientists identified five types of bacteria which...
French Town to Light its Streets With Bacteria Luminescence That Needs No Electricity
A French design startup wants to reimagine public lighting by introducing—much like in a fantasy or sci-fi story—bacterial and fungal bioluminescence to street lights.
One...
Simple Bacteria Spray Can Solve India’s Air Pollution and Also Enrich Local Farmers
A spray of common bacteria and fungi has been developed to rapidly biodegrade agricultural waste in the fields of India, enriching degraded soils and...
Methane-Eating Bacteria Converts Greenhouse Gas to Fuel (And Could Clean-up Fracking Sites)
Methanotrophic bacteria consume 30 million metric tons of methane per year and have captivated researchers for their natural ability to convert the potent greenhouse...
Scientists Engineer Bacteria to Eat CO2 and Release Valuable Acetone and Isopropyl That are Carbon-Negative
Scientists have discovered a way to genetically engineer bacteria that will consume carbon oxide and carbon dioxide before converting them to two widely used...
Compounds in Amber Could Help Fight Drug-Resistant Bacteria Superbugs, Scientists Find
For centuries, people in Baltic nations have used ancient amber for medicinal purposes. Even today, infants are given amber necklaces that they chew to...