Sandia National Laboratories is working on a bacteria-killing agent to clean contaminated offices.
OspA is produced specifically by Borrelia burgdorferi, a bacteria that causes Lyme disease.
They released tiny droplets containing Staphyloccus aureus, a bacteria related to MRSA, from a heated mannequin simulating the human body.
Researchers carried out lab tests on a bacteria associated with MRSA and found it could travel up to 3.5m (11ft).
Andrea uses that current to feed them a bacteria called BTI.
However, Haseltine says the odds of a medicine working against a bacteria like anthrax or a virus like smallpox are very high after even early-stage tests.
Kosan is also working with the National Cancer Institute to test analogues of geldanamycin, a bacteria-derived agent, in early human trials that may boost the effectiveness of chemotherapy.
Of particular concern is a bacteria called Staphylococcus aureus.
Before he left, there had already been the first reports of patients returning from the battlefield with wound infections, pneumonia and other problems caused by a bacteria called Acinetobacter baumannii, which is rarely seen in the United States.
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Despite reporting five deaths from a bacteria-caused illness, public health officials said Tuesday they are more concerned about the possibility of toxic chemicals in the water covering New Orleans than they are about a cholera outbreak.
If the oceans do not make your heart go pitter-patter, how about engineering a bacteria that eats carbon dioxide -- and thus helps protect the world from overheating -- AND excretes fuel which will allow us to drive our cars and machines, without oil?
People start calling it flesh-eating bacteria, that a few years - maybe more than a decade ago, when Jim Henson, the Muppets creator died, that was actually strep, which is a different bacteria.
But stomach acid is a defense against bacteria, and a big new study found that acid suppression may have a surprising downside: more infections.
And MRSA, (a staph bacteria resistant to common antibiotics) can be present and survive on surfaces for up to 8-9 days based on studies.
The number of lives claimed in the United States by cantaloupes contaminated with a dangerous bacteria climbed to 29 this week, making the 28-state wide outbreak outbreak of listeriosis the deadliest in the United States since 1985, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Over the past few months, we've been hearing more about a type of bacteria that's resistant to a number of antibiotics.
The art installation is a portable laboratory made of 24-karat gold-plated hardware, a glass bioreactor and the bacteria, a combination that produces gold in front of an audience.
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Or it could say, there's a lot of bacteria living inside something called Melanie, like, kind of like a hotel.
The urgency of antibiotic development is enhanced by the emergence of new and deadly bacteria strains, usually called CRE, a term that includes bacteria like some strains of KPC or NDM that are antibiotic resistant.
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In 1996, a NASA study caused a sensation when it announced the mere possibility of fossilized bacteria in a meteorite believed to be from the Red Planet.
These Living Machines recycle wastewater by filtering it through a system of bacteria and plants.
Well, apparently you should also avoid snorting a gallon of bacteria-laden Costa Rican river water.
Your mouth gets a lot of bacteria on various surfaces, which can recolonize clean areas.
It was those skills which have turned our once-shiny space station into a steamy green bacteria-funky lung.
E. coli refers to a group of bacteria normally found in the intestines of healthy humans and animals.
The American Meat Institute noted in a statement that bacteria on meat and poultry products are declining.
Chakrabarty, a 1979 decision upholding a patent on bacteria that had been genetically modified to break down crude oil.
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Unlike a virus or bacteria, it contains no genetic information of its own, and does not spread by reproducing or making copies of itself.
So EBI has developed a strain of bacteria that gobbles up the compound in wastewater collection systems by injecting the microbes right at the site.
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