Researchers at the National University of Singapore have reported crossing the blood–brain barrier with help from a modified Lactobacillus plantarum. By delivering an appetite-regulating hormone ...

Genetic engineering deployed to insert gene for human insulin into a bacterium, thus harnessing the substance for widespread ...

Recombinant antibodies are invented antibodies formed by using recombinant DNA technology. While traditional monoclonal ...

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Tests on the "mysterious balls" which led to the closure of several Australian beaches last week have revealed they were made up partially of faecal bacteria. Nine beaches in Sydney were closed by ...

Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States ...

Many biotech companies are now developing recombinant spider silk fibres using genetically modified organisms such as bacteria, yeast, and silkworms with some success. However, there are challenge ...

This discovery could also have implications in studies of polymer-secreting conglomerations of bacteria known as biofilms—the slippery goo on river rocks, for example—and in industrial ...

A beneficial gut bacterium can tolerate high concentrations of first-line anti-tuberculosis (anti-TB) drugs, microbiologists at the Central Food Technological Research Institute in Karnataka have ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Rotavirus protein NSP4 disrupts calcium signaling, influencing disease severity by affecting both infected and nearby uninfected cells. NSP4 alone can induce ...

Working with existing human and porcine virulent and attenuated rotavirus strains, as well as novel genetic recombinant strains generated by a reverse genetics system, the team examined the role ...