Important developments in the design of recombinant lactic acid bacteria (LAB) as mucosal carriers for a range of health-beneficial compounds, such as antigens, allergens, immune modulators ...

Plastic milk jugs are a ubiquitous part of the American supermarket landscape, but one feature of these containers has ...

Bacteria (2×10 8 in 0.2 ml phosphate-buffered saline ... Samples were assayed in triplicate and recombinant KGF-2 (R&D Systems) was used to generate a standard curve. KGF-2 bioactivity was assessed ...

New York - Scientists have mapped the genome of a bacterium that can cause miscarriage in women and pneumonia and meningitis in newborns. The discovery paves the way for the development of drugs to ...

Figure 1: Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium that causes cholera. Figure 2: Distribution on the two Vibrio cholerae chromosomes of key genetic loci required for virulence 2. The presence of more than ...

A propagating mechanism helps Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria adopt a competent state that allows them to resist antibiotic ...

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Kindai University, Higashi-Osaka 577-8502, Osaka, Japan ...