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In an article in the February 2014 issue of Environmental Entomology, called “Using Resistant Prey Demonstrates that Bt Plants Producing Cry1Ac, Cry2Ab, and Cry1F Have No Negative Effects on Geocoris...
View ArticleBacterial superbug protein structure solved – Phys.org
A research team from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., is the first to decipher the 3-D structure of a protein that confers antibiotic resistance from one of the most worrisome...
View ArticleChemist gets US patent for solution to resistance problem – Phys.org
A chemist based at the University of Copenhagen has just taken out a patent for a drug that can make previously multidrug-resistant bacteria once again responsive to antibiotics. Jørn Bolstad and his...
View ArticleHeavily-contaminated water found in Thames Valley – Phys.org
He also tested for microbes that could grow in the presence of the synthetic antibiotic ampicillin (a type of penicillin) finding high-levels of bacteria resistant to antibiotics. Dr Neuman said these...
View ArticleGarlic counteracts virulent bacteria – Phys.org
When bacteria clump together in what is known as biofilm – where they surround themselves with a tough film of organic materials – they become resistant to antibiotics. Researchers have been devoting...
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