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Researchers develop technique to functionally identify and sequence soil bacteria one cell at a time

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Credit: LIU Yang Researchers from the Single-Cell Center at the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a technique to sort and sequence the genome of bacteria in soil one bacterial cell at a time, while also identifying what its function is in the soil environment. […]. (..)

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Antibiotic resistance may spread even more easily than expected

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Credit: Jan Zrimec/Chalmers University of Technology Pathogenic bacteria in humans are developing resistance to antibiotics much faster than expected. Now, computational research at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, shows that one reason could be significant genetic transfer between bacteria in our ecosystems and to humans.

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Researchers surprised to find bacterial parasites behind rise of ‘super bugs’

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Credit: Vaughn Cooper PITTSBURGH, July 16, 2021 – For the first time ever, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine discovered that phages–tiny viruses that attack bacteria–are key to initiating rapid bacterial evolution leading to the emergence of treatment-resistant “superbugs.”

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For bacteria, a small genome means some serious decluttering — even in the ribosome

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Researchers from Skoltech, Lomonosov Moscow State University, and the Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems have studied the genomes of some 200 strains of bacteria to determine which proteins in the ribosome, part of the key cell machinery, can be safely lost and why.

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A few common bacteria account for majority of carbon use in soil

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These new findings, made by researchers at Northern Arizona University and published in Nature Communications this week, suggest that despite […].

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Full evolutionary journey of hospital superbug mapped for the first time

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Modern hospitals and antibiotic treatment alone did not create all the antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria we see today. Instead, selection pressures from before widespread use of antibiotics influenced some of them to develop, new research has discovered.

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The future of genomic medicine: can it fulfil its promises?

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Bioinformatic techniques are then used to piece together the reads into a continuous genomic sequence by aligning them to the reference human genome. At the same time as trying to understand what those regions do, researchers may also be able to measure to what degree a gene is being expressed. “If

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