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La UPV implementa una técnica de rápida detección de bacterias patógenas vivas en aguas de riego, río, residuales y de redes de abastecimiento

by Universitat Politècnica de València

9 years ago
Helicobacter pylori

El estudio ha permitido el desarrollo de una técnica de identificación que permite inhibir la división de las células con mezclas de antibióticos, sin afectar al resto de actividades metabólicas...

Comunidades de microorganismos protectores frente a la erosión

by Fundación Andaluza para la Divulgación de la Innovación y el Conocimiento

9 years ago
soil crusts, erosion

A partir de los resultados del proyecto Balance de carbono en costras biológicas de ecosistemas áridos (BACARCOS), los expertos aplicarán la costra biológica a la rehabilitación de zonas degradad...

VHIR: The Infectious Diseases group has been awarded for a project that seeks new strategies to treat antimicrobial resistant infections

by Vall d’Hebron

9 years ago
antimicrobial resistance, VHIR

Dr. Gavaldà comments “Access to effective antibiotics is essential in all health systems. Their use has reduced childhood mortality and increased life expectancy, and they are crucial for invasive ...

Lack of microbial diversity: a risk factor for chronic disease

by Vall d’Hebron

9 years ago
B·Debate, microbial diversity, chronic disease

Loss of human microbiome diversity would explain reactions such as allergies or celiac disease which means that our body is reacting against bacteria we can find present in the environment but not in ...

The cause of the extraordinary resistance of bacterial biofilms has been identified

by UPF - Universitat Pompeu Fabra

9 years ago
biofilms

García-Ojalvo comments "our work also suggests the mechanism to destroy biofilm". Despite what might be expected, this strategy is based on promoting the continued growth of the periphery that ends u...

Mechanism identified by which some pathogens regulate the expression of antibiotic resistance genes

by Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB)

9 years ago
Protein ω2, antibiotic resistance

“Stimulation and inhibition of transcription is the mechanism used by ω2 to control the copy number, efficient distribution and survival of the plasmid” explains Juan Carlos Alonso, one of the au...

Patients with diarrhoea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome have less microbial diversity

by Vall d’Hebron

9 years ago
irritable bowel syndrome, diarrhoea

Is it estimated that 11% of the population suffers from irritable bowel syndrome. Only in Vall d’Hebron, the Physiology and Pathophysiology of the Digestive Tract Unit has more than a thousand patie...

Una cepa de bifidobacterias induce una respuesta antiinflamatoria en células intestinales

by CSIC - Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

9 years ago
B. animalis subsp. lactis

En el caso de las bifidobacterias ingeridas en los alimentos, estos polímeros protegen frente al ácido del estómago y las altas concentraciones de sales biliares presentes en el duodeno y facilitan...

The Lord of the Ring and the keepers of bacterial division

by Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB)

9 years ago
Escherichia coli, FtsZ protein

To proliferate, bacteria such as Escherichia coli form a ring that constricts the membrane until the original cell becomes two. The FtsZ protein is the basis of this structure, but the process would n...

The research group Microbiology of water related to health (MARS), from the Faculty of Biology of the University of Barcelona (UB) have developed a method that quickly analyzes the microbial quality of water and assesses treatment processes applied

by Fundació Bosch i Gimpera

9 years ago
Microbiology of water related to health (MARS), water

MARS research group is for over 25 years, an international leader in the use of bacteriophages as indicators and models microorganisms in drinking water and wastewater, as well as other materials such...

Encapsulated bacteriophages for enhanced oral phage therapy

by ICN2 Instituto Catalán de Nanociencia y Nanotecnología

9 years ago
Encapsulated bacteriophages, oral phage therapy

Scientists at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the ICN2 have developed a nanoencapsulation system based on lipid envelopes to increase the efficacy of bacteriophages in oral phage ther...

Possible new treatment for bladder cancer using a mycobacterium

by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

9 years ago
Mycobacterium brumae, bladder cancer, mycobacterium

Researchers with the UAB's Mycobacteria Research Group have found a mycobacterium that is more effective in treating superficial bladder cancer and does not cause infections, unlike those used up to n...