Scientists from the University of Aarhus (Denmark), together with microbiologists at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (JLU) has managed to produce palladium nanoparticles with biological support. Palladium is a precious metal in high demand. It is used inter alia as a catalyst
One of the weapons of nature in the struggle for survival are the natural antibiotics that are effective in protecting plants against bacteria. Some are known for thousands of years and help to fight not only bacteria, fungi and viruses.
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool is coating the toys in their flag with a revolutionary form of “liquid crystal”, which has been shown in tests that can reduce the number of pathogenic bacteria that live on the surface of
Global climate change has led to numerous efforts to slash emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas produced by burning fossil fuels. In a new approach, the UCLA researchers genetically engineered to consume a cyanobacterium dioxide carbon and produce isobutanol,
In a breakthrough that could help ease drought of antibiotics, scientists from Massachusetts described the successful use of a test that uses the worm C. elegans to discover new antibiotics. Frederick Ausubel and his colleagues described in the new study
In a unique experiment of its kind, the unique conditions of space flight were used to examine how the cells remain healthy or succumb to infection with human cells. At 3:21 am PDT on April 5, researchers at the Biodesign
