Other GM bacteria, to be delivered to the nose and vaginal tract, are being studied to prevent infectious disease.
This DEployable Physical COntainment Strategy (DEPCOS) allows no detectable GMM escape, samples to be easily retrieved, bacteria to be protected against environmental insults including antibiotics and low pH, and the lifespan of genetically recoded bacteria to be controlled.
Integrating photoacoustic imaging with the authors' method could allow the precise location of bacteria to be determined alongside detailed information of the surrounding tissue in vivo.
And my own, our research here at Cornell, has focused on identifying and controlling factors that enable bacteria to be transmitted through food systems.
Multiple logistic regression analysis identified pneumonia attributed to potentially antibiotic-resistant bacteria to be independently associated with 90-day readmission (OR, 1.75; 95% CI, 1.56-1.97; P <.001).
Quantifying ANAMMOX bacterial populations in the enrichment culture made it possible to estimate the doubling time of the enriched ANAMMOX bacteria to be 3.6 to 5.4 days.
The present knowledge unequivocally reveals the PEP pyruvate oxaloacetate nodes of bacteria to be a fascinating target of metabolic engineering in order to achieve optimized metabolite production.
The inactive genes include several that are known in other bacteria to be involved in colonizing the gut and, presumably, reflect the plague bacterium's ancestral style of life before it moved from gut to blood.
Students have been investigating everything from the application of protocell technology in sportswear to the culturing of bacteria to be used as a textile dye – something that will have huge implications for the textile industry if it pays off.
It is also reckoned by some, given that it hunts down and eats bacteria, to be the most abundant predator on Earth.
It's also able to live on abiotic (non-living) surfaces such as gym equipment or medical devices, meaning there's potential for the bacteria to be transmitted to others via contact with a contaminated object.
