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Chemistry World
October 30, 2015
Cesar Palmero |
Microscopic pumps made from trapped bacteria Scientists in China have trapped bacteria in 3D-printed structures and used them to pump materials along customized paths.   |
Chemistry World
February 13, 2015
Tim Wogan |
GM bacteria convert solar energy to liquid fuels A new scheme for storing the energy from photovoltaic cells, in which genetically modified bacteria reduce carbon dioxide to liquid fuels with hydrogen from water-splitting, has been proposed and partially demonstrated. |
Technology Research News
August 25, 2004 |
Photosynthesis Drives Solar Cell Researchers have mixed biology and electronics in solar cells that use photosynthetic spinach leaf molecules or photosynthetic bacteria to convert light to electricity. |
Chemistry World
February 19, 2013
Ian Farrell |
Analyzing bacterial metabolites A mass-spectrometry technique that can characterize and spatially resolve the metabolites produced by bacteria could lead to a better understanding of how different microbes interact with each other, and how their chemistry could be harnessed industrially. |
Chemistry World
November 15, 2009
Lewis Brindley |
Bacteria turn carbon dioxide into fuel US researchers have genetically modified bacteria to eat carbon dioxide and produce isobutyraldehyde - a precursor to several useful chemicals, including isobutanol, which has great potential as a fuel alternative to petrol. |
Chemistry World
May 17, 2007
Richard Van Noorden |
Bacterial Navigation Reprogrammed U.S. scientists have forced bacteria to follow new chemical signals by tweaking the bugs' natural guidance system. |
Chemistry World
September 27, 2011
Jon Evans |
Bacteria: The Ultimate Secret Agent A team of US chemists has come up with a way to encode messages into arrays of such bacteria, which they call steganography by printed arrays of microbes (SPAM). |
Technology Research News
October 8, 2003 |
Bacteria make more electricity Researchers from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have identified a microorganism that is particularly good at converting sugars to electricity under natural conditions. |
Technology Research News
July 27, 2005 |
Bacteria drive biochip sensor Researchers are working to connect living cells to computer chips to gain the best of both worlds. |
Fast Company
February 1, 2008
Elizabeth Svoboda |
Fueling The Future The oil well of tomorrow may be in a California lab full of genetically modified, diesel-spewing bacteria. |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2010
Sarah C.P. Williams |
A Study on Antibiotic Resistance Shows That Bacteria Aren't Just Out To Help Themselves Microbes that are resistant to the drug protect their weaker kin in the colony, HHMI researchers have found. The discovery upends traditional notions of antibiotic resistance and offers a target for new drugs against bacterial infections. |
Technology Research News
March 26, 2003 |
Plastic coating makes chips biofriendly Electronics usually don't mix well with biological material. Sandia National Laboratories researchers have overcome the incompatibility with a microscopic laser designed to quickly measure and identify microorganisms and cell types without inhibiting biological processes. |
Chemistry World
March 3, 2009
Lewis Brindley |
Sweet-toothed bacteria make their own vaccine With careful feeding, bacteria can produce vaccines against themselves, scientists in the US and China have found. |
Chemistry World
October 28, 2012
Simon Hadlington |
MOF based motorboat Researchers have devised a new type of molecular motor capable of propelling itself across a liquid surface. The move mimics motile life forms found in nature, such as bacteria, in the quest for autonomous microscopic machines. |
Chemistry World
July 21, 2011
Serin Dabb |
Small Wires Swim Through Serum for Drug Delivery US researchers have made nanowires that can be propelled through liquids with an external magnetic field. The wires could be used to deliver drugs in the human body. |
Chemistry World
August 28, 2007
Tom Westgate |
Repairing DNA Could Let Frozen Bacteria Survive for Millennia An international team of scientists believe they have strong evidence that bacteria trapped in permafrost are able to survive for hundreds of thousands of years by repairing their DNA. |
The Motley Fool
August 17, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
Of Compact Discs and Designer Bacteria It was twenty-five years ago that the first compact disc was created, with relatively little fanfare. What discoveries should we be looking at today that will change the world of tomorrow with the same impact? Will designer bacteria be one of them? |
Chemistry World
September 22, 2010
Manisha Lalloo |
Salmonella's secret weapon US researchers have explained the chemical trick behind Salmonella bacteria's ability to outgrow other microbes living in the gut. The findings could lead to new drug treatments for the bacterial infection. |
Chemistry World
June 30, 2011
Laura Howes |
Chemically evolved bacteria European scientists have created an Escherichia coli strain with a separate genome using chlorinated DNA. |
Chemistry World
October 8, 2013
David Bradley |
3D printing bacteria Jason Shear and colleagues at the University of Texas, US, have developed a 3D printing technique that lets them 'construct' defined bacterial communities so that short-range chemical communications and physical interactions between bacteria can be investigated more systematically than ever before. |
Chemistry World
August 3, 2009
Lewis Brindley |
Weaving with bacteria Bacteria-packed fabrics that can suck pollutants out of water have been made by American researchers. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2010
Prachi Patel |
A World-beating TB Detector To quickly and cheaply diagnose the world's worst infectious disease, engineers have shrunk an NMR machine down to size |
Chemistry World
September 11, 2013
Andria Nicodemou |
Bacteria incriminated by their odor Researchers in Taiwan and the US have developed a device that uses the volatile organic compounds released by bacteria to identify the bacteria as they are cultured. |
Chemistry World
March 24, 2015
Rebecca Trager |
Bacteria altered to suppress hunger faces long road to clinic A US-based research team has programmed gut bacteria to produce a hunger-suppressing molecule that has been shown to aid weight loss in mice. However, there are still significant challenges ahead. |
Chemistry World
May 12, 2011
Mike Brown |
Sugars recruited in fight against persistent infections Adding sugar to antibiotics can boost their effectiveness and prevent recurrent and chronic infections, according to researchers in the US. |
Chemistry World
June 4, 2010
Manisha Lalloo |
Antibacterial nanoparticles from bacteria Scientists have found that silver nanoparticles made using bacteria have better antibacterial properties than their chemically synthesised counterparts. |
Chemistry World
June 25, 2010
Phillip Broadwith |
Molecular machines shift into gear A set of molecular gears based on porphyrin complexes that can be chemically engaged and disengaged using acid or base has been created by Japanese researchers. |
Chemistry World
January 10, 2010
Simon Hadlington |
Antibiotic decay products reverse resistance In a colony of bacteria living in the presence of an antibiotic in natural environments, individuals that are sensitive to the antibiotic can co-exist with those that are resistant, whereas logic would dictate that only resistant bacteria should survive. |
Chemistry World
July 28, 2008
Hayley Birch |
Biofilms deploy chemical weapons When marine bacteria join together in sticky biofilms, they produce lethal chemicals to protect themselves from predators. |
Scientific American
June 2008
Melinda Wenner |
Jeremy Nicholson's Gut Instincts: Researching Intestinal Bacteria The body and its intestinal flora produce chemicals with hidden health information, Jeremy Nicholson has found. Someday treating disease may mean treating those bacteria. |
Chemistry World
May 6, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Zombie cells may rise up to kill infections The worst fears of Hollywood may yet become a reality as chemists in Israel have found dead bacteria, killed with silver, may be able rise up like 'zombies' and go on to kill surviving pathogens. |
Chemistry World
July 27, 2009
Lewis Brindley |
Sticky nanotubes detect bacteria in seconds Sticky nanotubes that trap bacteria like flypaper can be used to identify bacterial infections in seconds rather than days, report Spanish chemists. |
Scientific American
May 2009
Melinda Wenner |
Quiet Bacteria and Antibiotic Resistance Bacteria devoted to growth instead of "quorum sensing" communication could beat antibiotic resistance. |
