bacterial species

Groundbreaking research reveals gut bacteria can signal Parkinson's years before symptoms. A UCL study found distinct microbial profiles in Parkinson's patients and those genetically at risk. This discovery could revolutionize early detection and prevention by targeting gut health, offering hope for slowing the fastest-growing neurodegenerative disease. Read more.

Your kitchen sponge, a breeding ground for millions of microbes, emits foul odors as bacteria thrive in its moist, food-laden fibers. These tiny organisms, including potentially harmful strains, can spread germs across your kitchen. To combat this, experts recommend sanitizing sponges with high heat or replacing them every one to two weeks.

Wooden cutting boards, prized for their knife-friendliness and natural beauty, face deterioration due to moisture cycles. This repeated wetting and drying causes fibre separation and cracking. Despite this, wood boasts superior antibacterial properties over plastic. Proper rehydration with mineral oil or wax significantly extends a board's lifespan, ensuring hygiene and durability.

In a surprising discovery, scientists found 26 new bacteria species thriving in NASA's spacecraft clean rooms, designed to prevent contamination on Mars missions. These resilient extremophiles survived sterilization processes, raising ethical questions about planetary protection and the search for extraterrestrial life. This highlights the need for improved sterilization methods and potential applications in medicine.

A new study measured salivary bacterial populations of overweight women. It revealed that the presence of oral bacteria could make you fatter.

IIT Ropar have developed a modified protein fragment that can boost the detection of a specific bacterial species for a longer time, two to three hours, in the infection area. It grabs the bacterial membrane tightly and helps protein fragments stay on the bacterial surface longer.

At a time when Hyderabad is seeing a jump in colon cancer cases, a landmark study at the University of Hyderabad (UoH) revealed that various bacterial species in the human intestine, including strains of E.coli, is triggering colorectal cancer.

By providing a biological supplement to conventional observation-based techniques, the discoveries have the potential to completely transform autism screening.

Researchers from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and University of Hyderabad (UoH) have jointly discovered a novel species of bacteria from the International Space Station (ISS) that could help in space agriculture to meet the long-term food needs of astronauts and space tourists to the moon or Mars.

The scientists at HKUST discovered the microbial species, including Acidobacteria — a natural medicinal phylum containing the CRISPR gene editing system found at sea for the first time. Over a span of 8 years, the team developed biofilms with water samples on different materials, eventually discovering the new biofilm-forming species & 10 new bacterial phyla.

The bacterial species namely Exiguobacterium sibiricum strain DR11 and Exiguobacterium undae strain DR14 were isolated from the wetlands adjoining the university.

A team of researchers from Vector Control Research Centre (VCRC), Puducherry and Pondicherry University has discovered bacteria in bird droppings that can kill mosquitoes. It has proposed to develop an anti-mosquito formulation using these bacteria, which can replace chemical insecticides.

The researchers from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have been working on a way to combine Raman spectroscopy with artificial intelligence (AI) for applications in diagnostics and healthcare. They have previously shown how the combination can be used to detect Covid19 biomarkers in blood samples - an accomplishment that won the Challenger Award at the Nasscom AI Game Changer Awards Programme last year. In a new study, the IISc researchers have demonstrated another application for the combination - quickly identifying bacterial pathogens in different types of clinical samples. Current goldstandard tests are either timeconsuming or work only for a specific type of sample. Nucleic acid amplificationbased methods are timeintensive and involve bacterial lysis. The researchers employed a stateoftheart deep learning model called residual network resnet to identify and differentiate between the spectra of eight bacterial species.