Microbes

	A Trojan-horse strategy selected to fight bacteria
... the latter will 'try to steal' the iron from the host cells. Iron is a very important material for growth of bacteria and without iron they wouldn't have the ability to built biofilm or colonies of microbes to cause chronic infections. "Because iron is so important in infection, we thought infecting bacteria might be vulnerable to interventions that target iron," said Yukihiro Kaneko, one of the author's of the current ...
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	Breakthrough - Healing Water to Regenerate Wounds Faster
...cyn (which is the name of the "healing water"), are oxychlorine ions, which represent electrically charged molecules. This is how they work - the oxychlorine ions pierce the cell walls of free-living microbes. It is worth mentioning that the water is only able to kill cells that are completely surrounded by it. This is because cells are bound tightly together in a matrix. To kill the cells scientists take purified wat...
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	Antarctic Microbes to Tell about Past and Future of Climate Change
...rm' than exclusion from the rules for the terrestrial world. Pete Convey, who works for the British Antarctic Survey, outlined the fact that because groups of invertebrates, as well as plants and microbes inhabit only a small portion of a huge continent, most scientists did not take them into consideration seriously. However recent discoveries and technical advances in the field of molecular biology and biogeograp...
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