POSTS TAGGED AS bacteria

Bacteria as a Cancer Biosensor

Engineered Bacteria Detect Tumor DNA
“A new kind of biosensor has been created by an international team of researchers; they made [MORE]

Red Blood Cells Engineered to Deliver Antibiotics

Smart red blood cells deliver antibiotics to kill specific bacteria
A few years ago scientists at McMasters University in Canada developed [MORE]

Microwave Sensor for Antibiotic Susceptibility

New Sensor Helps Determine How Bacteria Will Respond to Antibiotics
“Researchers at the University of British Columbia-Okanagan have developed a new [MORE]

Low Temperature Plasma Medicine

Atmospheric-pressure plasma jet against antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Biomedical researchers at Pennsylvania State University report: “We investigated the efficacy of LTP [i.e. low [MORE]

Scripps Florida Acquires Pfizer’s Microbial Sample Library

Ben Shen microbial collection assembled by Pfizer
For nearly a century, the pharmaceutical company collected microorganisms of potential drug value.  Now [MORE]

3-D Printing with Bacterial Ink

3D Printing of Bacteria
Materials engineers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have developed means for immobilizing bacteria [MORE]

High Resolution pH Imaging

Energy Transduction
This piece describes how researchers at Osaka University have used a fluorescent probe and microscopy to image the complex [MORE]

Mini-ion Pocket Sequencer

Mini-ION DNA Sequencer
The “MiniION” is a portable DNA sequencer that’s slightly smaller than an iPhone. While its miniaturized nanopore technology [MORE]

Device Senses Antibiotic Effectiveness

Researchers at the Ếcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have engineered a matchbox-sized device that can indicate the presence of [MORE]

Biosensor for Antibiotic Resistance

By combining a bacteriophage (i.e. a virus that infects bacteria) and specific antibodies, researchers at Auburn University have developed [MORE]