Sunday, March 04, 2012

ScienceDaily: Biotechnology News

ScienceDaily: Biotechnology News


New antibiotics? Solving mystery of how sulfa drugs kill bacteria yields 21st century drug development target

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 05:29 AM PST

Scientists have discovered a key enzyme structure in bacteria, a finding that lays the foundation for a new generation of antibiotics that are safer and less prone to drug resistance.

How E. coli bacteria hijack cells' directional mechanism

Posted: 01 Mar 2012 05:41 AM PST

Working in the emerging field of systems biology, researchers mathematically predicted how bacteria that cause food poisoning hijack a cell's sense of direction and then confirmed those predictions in living cells.

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