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Amazing TED talk on bacteriae talking TED talk by Bonnie Bassler: Discovering bacteria’s amazing communicat by Annet Lenderink Patient Expert

Posted Wed 04 Nov 2009 10:03pm TED talk by Bonnie Bassler: Discovering bacteria’s amazing communication system TED talk by Bonnie Bassler: Discovering bacteria’s amazing communication system Read on »

TED talk by Bonnie Bassler: Discovering bacteria’s amazing communication system by Annet Lenderink Patient Expert

Bacteria-killing Paint For Hospital Walls In Development–Working So Far in the Lab With Killing Bacteria by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted Fri 13 Aug 2010 8:14am until available. It is working better than washing surfaces and takes a few hours to rid the environment of bacteria and this would also be good for the food industry. BD Aug 13 - Researchers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York have developed a paint that can kill even the most resistant bacteria. Ben Gruber reports. Read on »

Scientists Reveal Structure of Dangerous Bacteria’s Powerful Multidrug Resistance Pump by Ed H. Doctor of Pharmacy

Posted Sun 10 Oct 2010 1:37pm A team at The Scripps Research Institute has detailed the structure of a member of the only remaining class of multidrug resistance transporters left to be described. The work has implications for combating dangerous antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria, as well as for developing hardy strains of agricultural crops. The study was published Read on »

Bad Bacteria & Healthy Bacteria by Dr. Ellie Phillips Posted Sat 30 Jan 2010 12:00am Dear Dr. Ellie: I assume it's not necessary to brush teeth after every meal once the bad bacteria have been crowded out by the healthy ones and have taken residence... is of course a perfect ending to a meal - so brushing is not needed. Plaque bacteria take 12 hours to grow on teeth - so brushing every 12 hours is enough. More than this may do more Read on »

Bad Bacteria & Healthy Bacteria by Dr. Ellie Phillips Posted Sat 30 Jan 2010 8:00am Dear Dr. Ellie: I assume it's not necessary to brush teeth after every meal once the bad bacteria have been crowded out by the healthy ones and have taken residence... is of course a perfect ending to a meal - so brushing is not needed. Plaque bacteria take 12 hours to grow on teeth - so brushing every 12 hours is enough. More than this may do more Read on »

Bacterium 'to blame for Crohn's' by Healthy Solutions Patient Expert

Posted Sun 29 Aug 2010 7:38am BBC News Researchers believe the lack of a specific bacterium in the gut may be a cause of Crohn's disease. A shortage of naturally-occurring bacteria is thought to trigger the inflammatory gastrointestinal disorder by over-stimulating the immune system. Now a French team has highlighted the bug, Faecalibacterium Read on »

Antioxidant and free radical scavenging activities of an exopolysaccharide from a probiotic bacterium. by Jan Posted Fri 11 Sep 2009 4:58pm Research by Kodali VP. and Sen R. Probiotic bacteria synthesize extracellular polysaccharides (EPSs) with commercially significant physiological and therapeutic activities..., they exhibit antioxidant activities. Our probiotic bacterium, Bacillus coagulans RK-02, produces an EPS during the exponential and stationary growth phases when grown in a glucose Read on »

Transplanting Good Bacteria by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted Thu 05 Nov 2009 10:01pm treatment is to take healthy bacteria (from a relative's feces), recondition it, and then transplant it into the infected person. Studies show that over 90% of patients are cured with this type of treatment, often with just one treatment. Antibiotics don't work because they wipe out the good bacteria but not the C. diff bacteria. This is another example Read on »

Bacteria-Free Mice by Seth Roberts .. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted Thu 06 Aug 2009 10:05pm Bacteria-free mice have malfunctioning digestive systems and immune systems. Sarkis Mazmanian, an assistant professor at Caltech, has found that as little as one bacterial-surface molecule can make their immune systems work much better. Exposure to this molecule also protects the mice against a bacterium that would otherwise cause a mouse model Read on »