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Researchers found colistin-resistant bacteria in 49% vegetable, meat samples in Chennai. They have for the first time deciphered the mechanism by which food Klebsiella bacteria develop resistance to colisitin, a last-line antibiotic.…
The longevity of C. elegans increased 40-60% when NII researchers used a mutant that lacked the function of a particular gene and fed the worm a specific bacterial diet — E.…
IISc researchers found cholesterol present in cell membrane plays a central role in the two-step process of stabilising and binding the pore-forming toxin Cytolysin A. On binding to cholesterol, the structure…
Researchers at IISER Pune found that E. coli subjected to different stresses simultaneously and in a unpredictable manner evolved to tolerate novel stresses that they were never exposed to such as antibiotics and…
Researchers at IISc have produced etched aluminium that is capable of killing Gram-negative bacteria such as E. coli and keep surfaces free of both E. coli and S. aureus. Surfaces that…
Mimicking tiny features seen on insect wings and shark skin that effectively keep their surfaces free of bacteria, a team from Bengaluru’s Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has found a…
Indian researchers have unravelled the mechanism by which hydrogen sulphide (H2S) gas produced by bacteria protects them from antibiotics and plays a key role in helping bacteria develop drug resistance.…
Using crystal engineering, a team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore has successfully produced a highly efficacious binary salt of two commonly used drugs — norfloxacin…
