Browse by Tags

• Bacteria
• Nanotechnology

• Nanotechnology Boosts War On Superbugs

  Scientists from the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) at UCL are using a novel nanomechanical approach to investigate the workings of vancomycin, one of the few antibiotics that can be used to combat increasingly resistant infections such as MRSA. Read More...
  Posted Monday, October 13, 2008 7:36 AM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanotechnology, Bacteria, Antibiotics

• Bacteria vs. Humans: Score One for Us

  Biochemist Floyd Romesberg of the Scripps Research Institute has discovered a molecule that inhibits a specific gene's ability to cause mutations and slips easily into a bacterial cell. Taken in combination with antibiotics, it would prevent the ... Read more
  Posted Thursday, April 05, 2007 11:58 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Bacteria, Antibiotics