Antibiotic smart bomb that only kills `bad` bacteria

Last Updated: Friday, January 31, 2014, 15:48

Here comes an antibiotic `smart bomb` that can select specific strains of bacteria, damage their DNA and eliminate the infection.

Bacteria-coated rubber could help generate electricity

Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 11:59

Researchers were able to use a small strip of latex rubber coated with bacterial spores to power a new electric generator.

Why Salmonella bacteria is a near perfect killer

Last Updated: Thursday, January 16, 2014, 13:35

Researchers have said that once Salmonella bacteria get into food processing facility, and have an opportunity to form a biofilm on surfaces, it is likely to be extraordinarily difficult, if not impossible, to kill it.

Virus that invades crop-friendly bacteria discovered

Last Updated: Sunday, January 12, 2014, 16:55

Scientists have stumbled upon a virus that invades a soil bacteria to hamper its functioning, thus affecting the production of major crops across the world.

What lies beneath our feet? A diverse life

Last Updated: Monday, December 30, 2013, 12:37

There is life below our earth`s surface - in an atmosphere with no light or air - and now it is being catalogued.

Waste water treatment facilities make for hardy bacteria

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 18, 2013, 19:07

Waste water treatment facilities can be hotspots for the spread of antibiotic resistance in bacteria, making them immune to drugs that fight infection.

Clear possibility of life existing elsewhere in space: Physicist J V Narlikar

Last Updated: Sunday, December 8, 2013, 22:13

Eminent physicist J V Narlikar has said there is a clear possibility of life existing elsewhere in space apart from the earth.

Scientists claim solving protein synthesis mystery

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 4, 2013, 11:12

In a finding that would help understand evolution of life and also have implications for medical science, scientists today said they have been able to solve the mystery of nature in protein synthesis.

Now, cheese made using bacteria from human bodies

Last Updated: Sunday, November 24, 2013, 15:46

Scientists have given the good old cheese a new twist by creating 11 new types using bacteria from the feet, mouths and belly buttons of humans.

3.5 bn-year-old ecosystem found in Australia

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 12, 2013, 14:16

Scientists have found evidence of a complex microbial ecosystem dating back almost 3.5 billion years in Western Australia`s Pilbara region.

Scientists produce gasoline from bacteria

Last Updated: Monday, September 30, 2013, 13:48

In a first, Korean scientists have successfully developed genetically modified microbes that can produce gasoline, used as fuel for transportation.

Bacteria in drinking water key to keeping it clean

Last Updated: Thursday, August 15, 2013, 19:09

Scientists have found that bacteria in the drinking water may play a key role to keep it clean, a finding that can reduce the need for high dosage chemical treatments.