by Nancy | 1 Sep 2016 | Electronics, Microbes, Molecular Biology, science
Geobacter is one of the genera in the phylum of Proteobacteria and the family of Geobacteracea. Geobacter species are found in soils and aquatic sediment and have thus no requirement for air in order to survive. In other words, they are anaerobic. What is interesting...
by Nancy | 6 May 2016 | Microbes, Molecular Biology, science
Exciting news on the Zika virus front! Researchers have now found that mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia pipientis are at a reduced risk to become infected with Zika virus. The prevalence of Zika virus infection was significantly reduced in mosquitoes infected with...
by Nancy | 23 Feb 2016 | gut flora, Microbes, Molecular Biology, science
Sulfoquinovose (SQ), it’s quite a mouthful :) SQ is a abundant sugar produced by photosynthetic organisms, such as leafy green vegetables, as a source of carbon and sulfur. It is the only sugar that contains sulfur, required to build proteins that sustain...
by Nancy | 23 Jan 2016 | Microbes, Molecular Biology, science
Targeting virulence factors, produced by bacteria to evade the immune system, is another approach to find new anti-infectives medications. In this light, Shapiro and Wencewicz investigated the virulence factor acinetobactin and its precursor produced by Acinetobacter...
by Nancy | 10 Oct 2015 | Microbes, Molecular Biology, science
The challenge in detecting a set of viruses simultaneously in clinical samples lies in the large variety of their genomes, i.e. there is no gene that is present in all viruses. With the advent of new sequencing technologies, including high throughput parallel sequence...
by Nancy | 2 Sep 2015 | Microbes, Molecular Biology, science
MIME (Mutational Interference Mapping Experiment) is used to investigate the interaction of RNA with its respective interaction partners in greater detail. In this approach, the RNA of interest is randomly mutated and amplified. The vast pool of resulting mutated RNAs...
