A team led by Professor Kazuhiro Maeshima of the National Institute of Genetics (ROIS) and SOKENDAI in Japan has developed a ...

Immune cells in the skin ‘cauterize’ open wounds and create ‘band-aids’ to prevent the spread of harmful bacteria and foreign molecules from injury sites, finds a study 1 in mice.

derived from the Greek word for bacteria-eaters, or in shortened form, "phages." Scientists have sought to learn how the single-cell organisms survive phage infection in a bid to further ...

Meyer’s team managed to get the living bacterial cells to make themselves into small lenses. The tiny lenses belong to a category called microlens devices that focus or manipulate light at a very ...

When selecting a probiotic, quality is important. Many products are labeled with “live and active cultures” with a colony-forming unit (CFU) of 1 billion or higher. CFU counts indicate the ...

Nevertheless, such observations are complex─they require delicate samples kept in the liquid phase, low electron dose, and proper cell viability verification methods. Despite being highly demanding, ...

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cells and antibodies. We are far from being there, but the initial efforts have started with the Danish Biotech Glycom adding N- Acetyl-D-Neuraminic acid to formula.86 Understanding the coevolution of ...

Division of Pure and Applied Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, Lund University, Lund 22100, Sweden ...