The Art of Healing

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Iodine is a key component to health, however since your body can’t produce it, you must get it from your diet. Dr Mercola explains. There are two molecules that sound similar — iodine and iodide — but they are different. Iodine is naturally occurri

NPR

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Balaram Khamari has been spending a lot of time in his lab in Puttaparthi, India, culturing colorful bacteria and artfully arranging it on a jelly like substance called agar.

WellBeing

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DR MICHAEL ELSTEIN is a Sydney-based anti-ageing physician and writer. He is the author of three books, including his latest, The Wellness Guide to Preventing the Diseases of Ageing. He has also designed the app The diet guide to ageing prevention. H

Los Angeles Times

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Scientists have discovered yet another way that single-celled organisms have outsmarted us. The tiny bacteria that live inside our guts have an ingenious way of withstanding the onslaught of antibiotics we throw at them, according to a report publish

Futurity

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The way the bacterium that causes Legionnaires’ Disease begins its invasion into host cells could pave the way for more targeted antibiotics, researchers report. Although we may think of bacteria as disease-causing microorganisms, there are about as

Wildlife Ranching Magazine

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The unrelenting pressures of population growth, the consequent inexorable geographic spread of humanity and the devastating impact of our consumeristic society with the resultant pollution are having a devastating effect on our planet and all that li

Futurity

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A new tool speeds up the process of choosing the most effective combination of antibiotics to kill treatment-resistant bacteria. Multi-drug-resistant bacteria are a major global problem. The number of new resistant bacteria is constantly increasing,

Popular Science

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Widespread antibiotic use is largely to blame for the emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria, which is currently one of the biggest threats to global health. Not only does antibiotic resistance already cause an estimated 700,000 deaths a year, it

How It Works

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Bacteria exist in our bodies by the billions. Some 1,000 different species live in the human gut alone. With such a large and thriving population, it’s easy to understand how a few bacteria might randomly acquire traits that make them more resistant

Cosmos Magazine

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Most flying insects have wings with water-repellent qualities, made possible by tiny knife-like structures that sluice water away from them while they’re in flight. “That’s quite important,” says Eser Akinoglu, a physicist at the Centre of Excellence

Popular Science

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This bathroom probably isn't much grosser than your kitchen, at least in terms of fecal bacteria. Pixabay You may have heard there’s poop bacteria getting sprayed all over people’s hands by bathroom hand dryers. But did you know there’s poop bacteria

Futurity

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A new study shows how bleach actually attracts the bacterium H. pylori, which is linked to stomach cancer. “We found that these bacteria can swim toward sources of bleach and that it can actually tolerate pretty high concentrations and not be killed,

OnFitness

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This may surprise you, but antibiotics (anti = against; biotic = life) are not necessarily unnatural. Most antibiotics are natural compounds produced by bacteria or fungi. These micro-organisms produce antibiotics to protect themselves. Their tiny im

South African Home Owner

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Using environmentally friendly cleaning agents in your home is not only better for the planet, it is also better for your health. “Using non-chemicals means that what goes into your skin or lungs is not harmful to you,” says Chevaun Roux, marketing c

Newsweek

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Experiments on the International Space Station have shown how bacteria can effectively defend itself.

Boys' Life

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BACTERIA LIVE ON YOU — AND IN YOU. Up to 6 pounds of them live on a 200-pound person. Inside, intestinal bacteria strengthens your immune system, digests food and affects brain function. Good bacteria can also act as antibiotics by eating harmful bac

Futurity

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Scientists have developed a method to efficiently modify natural antibodies that can deliver drugs to target cells using a rare metal. “The beauty of this catalyst is that it binds to the constant region of the antibody, so it should be broadly gener

Futurity

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There’s a better way to understand how to prescribe antibiotics to kill every last bacterium—or at least discourage them from developing resistance—according to new research. If an antibiotic doesn’t kill all the bacteria that infects a patient, the

Futurity

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While it is no secret that pathogenic bacteria are able to develop antibiotic resistance, it’s not so well known that some, including some of nature’s nastiest pathogens, resist antibiotics and escape antibiotic treatments in a different way: hiberna

Futurity

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A new way to deliver antimicrobial agents—drugs, antiseptics, or pesticides—could offer a more effective way to treat or prevent bacterial infections, researchers say. As reported in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, researchers synthesiz

Futurity

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Researchers have uncovered a mechanism by which strains of bacteria target and destroy their rivals in a never-ending quest for niche domination. The development could lead to better drug delivery systems and modern antibiotics. “What we’re studying

Futurity

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A new device mimics intestines to show how invading bacteria cause disease, making it more practical to find treatments for diseases like infectious diarrhea. The team developed transparent millifluidic perfusion cassettes (mPCs) that are easy to fab

Futurity

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A new laser treatment method could potentially turn any metal surface into a rapid bacteria killer just by giving it a different texture, researchers say. In a new study, they demonstrated that this technique allows the surface of copper to immediate

Futurity

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New research sheds light on how certain bacteria get their energy from electrical charges. Bacteria don’t have mouths, so they need another way to bring their fuel into their bodies. The new research reveals how one such bacteria pulls in electrons s

BBC Wildlife Magazine

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Fly milk is similar to mammalian milk in many ways. It is a creamy concoction of fats, proteins and symbiotic bacteria. That last ingredient is particularly important in the gut of parasitic flies. This is because the bacteria can synthesise essentia

Futurity

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Antibiotics change the composition and metabolism of gut bacteria in mice, and food can make things better or worse, according to new research. Antibiotics save countless lives each year from harmful bacterial infections—but the community of benefici

Futurity

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Researchers have discovered a technology that rapidly assesses potentially lifesaving antibiotics by using bacteria in saliva from an East Siberian brown bear. The technology involves placing a bacterium from a wild animal’s mouth—or other complex so

Futurity

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Instead of hitching a ride on people or animals, some bacteria may travel thousands of miles through the air, according to a new study. This “air bridge” hypothesis could shed light on how harmful bacteria share antibiotic resistance genes, researche

NPR

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Microbe-eating-microbes are found in "almost every ecosystem on Earth," says a defense department scientist who hopes bacteria of this type might one day be deployed to fight human infections.

Futurity

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We may finally know how bacterial cells trigger their defense against outside attacks, according to new research. The study also describes how researchers can activate the defense systems on cue. This discovery could be an important cornerstone in fi