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 in the chemical industry and the automotive industry in catalytic converters and fuel cells. The [...]
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. This is consistent with conventional antibiotics, in their frequent use is also the risk of [...]
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 objects. A seriously ill children being treated at Alder Hey were not often allowed to [...]
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, a liquid fuel that has great potential as an alternative to gasoline. Even better, the [...]
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 that the existing methods for identifying drugs for germs luca involves the addition of drugs [...]
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 Institute at Arizona State University, will see their latest experiment launched into Earth orbit on [...]
