bacteria
Dirty money: What’s really on our bank notes?
This May, paper five pound notes will cease to be legal tender. And since the average fiver has at least 136 exchanges a year, we thought we’d find out how clean the new polymer notes are, so you know just what you’re putting your hands on. more
Jan 18, 2017 3:30 PM News
Illustration: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT
AMR: Bacteria protect each other from antibiotics
Strains of E. coli resistant to one antibiotic can protect other bacteria growing nearby, according to findings by researchers at MIT more
Jun 7, 2016 4:41 PM News
Finding new antibiotics: A specialised area of drug discovery
Ashleigh Paparella, post-graduate researcher in the structural biology and drug design lab, at the University of Adelaide, talks about the challenges that antimicrobial resistance poses and possible ways around it more
Jan 26, 2016 11:49 AM Opinion
Life-threatening bacteria treated by vitamin-like molecules
A new class of vitamin-like molecules that can be used to treat life-threatening ‘golden staph’ bacteria has been discovered more
Jan 4, 2016 10:42 AM News
Bacteria found in the UK that resists the ‘last antibiotic’
Deadly bacteria that is resistant to the ‘last resort’ of antibiotics, colistin, has been found in the UK, according to the BBC more
Dec 22, 2015 10:53 AM News
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“Kill switches” shut down engineered bacteria
Researchers have developed safeguards in the form of two “kill switches,” which can cause the synthetic bacteria to die without the presence of certain chemicals more
Dec 11, 2015 4:01 PM News
Bacteria programmed to churn out valuable chemicals
Germ warfare: Scientists create super–productive bacteria colonies that pump out useful chemicals faster than ever before using "survival of the fittest" tactics more
Dec 24, 2014 11:06 AM News
