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Quorum Sensing
Quorum Sensing: in biology, is the ability to detect and to respond to cell population density by gene regulation. As one example, quorum sensing enables bacteria to restrict the expression of specific genes to the high cell densities at which the resulting phenotypes will be most beneficial.
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OCT 29, 2022
Microbiology
Kirstin Cutshaw is a Biological Sciences PhD student at the Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) whose research focuses
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 05, 2021
Microbiology
The natural world is full of microbes, fungi, and plants that have given us valuable medicines, like tetracyclines, peni
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 04, 2021
Microbiology
Scientists have been able to grow Escherichia coli bacteria colonies in complex shapes that E. coli doesn't typically fo
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 09, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
The bacterium Escherichia coli comes in many forms, and researchers have used a harmless strain of it to redesign how th
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 23, 2019
Microbiology
Extracts from three plants were active against some of today's worst drug-resistant bacterial pathogens that infect woun
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 22, 2018
Microbiology
Researchers at Princeton University have found a virus that can eavesdrop on the communications between bacteria.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 03, 2018
Microbiology
This work is a step toward bioengineering the microbes in the gut for improved human health.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 22, 2017
Microbiology
Bacterial multicellularity sounds like an oxymoron, right? Actually, bacteria in the genus Pantoea (family Enterobacteri
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
JUN 13, 2017
Microbiology
Did you know that bacteria make us humans and other animals smell the way we do? On top of that, animals use that smell
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
JAN 18, 2017
Microbiology
Viruses talk to each other, and not just about the weather. They talk about whether or not they should infect or kill th
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
NOV 18, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Bacteria can communicate information about population density to one another through a phenomenon called quorum sensing,
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 25, 2016
Microbiology
A cranberry a day keeps the doctor away. McGill University researchers found that cranberry extract helped slow the spre
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
FEB 25, 2016
Microbiology
Raise your hand if you’ve heard of Aliivibrio fischeri! (Formerly known as Vibrio fischeri.) A. fischeri ar
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
AUG 25, 2015
Microbiology
Cassandra Quave, Ph.D., has built a career on the medicinal properties of plants. The Emory University ethnobotani
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
JUL 21, 2015
Health & Medicine
Bacteria form biofilms to create an "ideal environment for creation of nutrient gradients, exchange of genes, and quorum
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 08, 2015
Microbiology
If you thought bacteria were "loners," molecular biologist Kevin Griffith of the University of Massachusetts Amherst has
...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
APR 08, 2015
Cell & Molecular Biology
Bacteria have traditionally been viewed as solitary organisms that "hang out on their own," says molecular biologist Kev
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
MAR 19, 2015
Cell & Molecular Biology
A research team led by Karina Xavier, PhD, at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), Portugal has shown that bacteri
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
MAR 25, 2014
Microbiology
Antibiotics have become increasingly less effective in the last few years, due in part to overuse and the subsequent res
...