Scientists developed a functional coating made of #proteins and #bacteria, that detects contact with UV-A radiation, is bio based, and could offer new perspectives for the development of #livingmaterials: http://go.tum.de/923111
#biotechnology #sustainability
📷A. Eckert
Producing Stronger Vaccines Faster By Harnessing Bacteria. Genetically modifying bacteria using AI-refined DNA leads to production of vaccines with 8-fold higher immunogenicity in a time-frame even 5 times shorter than even the speedy mRNA technology. #vaccines #bacteria #AI #mRNA
https://www.instagram.com/p/DUmSfKQDoQz/
Scientists Find 26 Whole New #Bacteria Species In NASA's Supposedly Sterile Cleanrooms Which Could Invade Mars
In 2007, scientists took samples from the cleanroom where the Phoenix Mars rover was built. They found no less than 26 brand new species of bacteria, all tolerant to extreme conditions. These things survived disinfectants and UV light, slipped through air filters, and toughed it out through temperature and humidity controls. https://www.jalopnik.com/2063832/new-bacteria-found-sterile-cleanroom-mars-invasion/
Who needs #BioLabs when there's all sorts of #bacteria about to be exposed after thousands of years!
Researchers issue warning after making grim #Antarctic discovery: 'We are only beginning to understand'
Story by Daysia Tolentino, January 29, 2026
Excerpt: "A study published in the journal #Biocontaminant examined the effects of #GlacialMelting on our #WaterSupply.
"#Glaciers serve as reservoirs for #AntibioticResistanceGenes, or #ARGs, and other #microbes. When they are released from the ice, they enter our water systems, posing a major health risk to people downstream.
"Millions of people get their water from glacier-fed rivers and lakes. ARGs are strands of DNA that make bacteria more resistant to drugs. When ARGs in #meltwater make their way into our water supply, they become a global public health risk.
"The study emphasizes the importance of viewing glaciers, rivers, and lakes as being part of a 'glacier continuum.' This means they are an interconnected system rather than separate environments.
Why are melting glaciers concerning?
"From our gas-powered cars to #overconsumption, human activity has contributed to the production of heat-trapping gases that warm the planet. Rising global temperatures have caused glaciers to rapidly melt, causing elevated sea levels and releasing ARGs.
"ARGs from melting glaciers are worrisome because they help facilitate the spread of diseases. This threat is compounded by the fact that our growing #microplastic problem is also helping #AntibioticResistant #bacteria breed. As a result, #medicines are being rendered less effective."
#WorldPol #USPol #FossilFuels #FossilFools #Degrowth #RenewablesNow #WaterIsLife #OceansAreLife #HumanFolly #NewDiseases
... well, I think God just wanted to make a lot of donuts because he had visitors at the time and he just left them in the oven for too long and they got too hard for him.🪐
And when he realized that he couldn't serve this rubbish, he simply threw these things over his shoulder.
Since then, the dough have been orbiting in space with a few #bacteria on them that multiplied and began to digest and developed #language and writing.😆
Sometimes things just happen, I can hardly believe it!
Identification of a small #chemical molecule that actively inhibits #bacterial immune defenses, enabling #bacteriophages to successfully infect and destroy #bacteria that would otherwise resist #viral attack.
#Biochemistry #Microbiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/02/bchm02042601.html
Something Strange Is Living—and Thriving—Below Fukushima’s Dead Reactors
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a70165451/life-fukushima-reactors/
#environment #strange #weird #weirdnews #fukushima #japan #reactors #nuclear #nuclearwaste #deadnuclear #nuclearnews #japannews #godzilla #gojira #Ionizingradiation #bacteria
A new #Gel could #Combat resistant #Bacteria in wounds and around implant sites, while also supporting healing. The hydrogel, which is inspired by natural immune defences, has produced highly promising results in animal models.
Fighting superbugs with nets a...
Eine absolute Hörempfehlung ist dieser sehr gut gemachte #Podcast vom #DLF über das größte zusammenhänge Ökosystem unserer Erde und die Frage wie (mikrobielles) Leben in den tiefsten Tiefen möglich ist.
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/leben-unterwelt-wo-endet-tiefe-biosphaere-100.html/
@MARUM
#Mikrobiologie #Microbiology #Bacteria #Bakterien #Archaea #Archaeen
Digital painting of a bunch of bacteria hanging out! 🦠✨
Done in Procreate 🖊️ ✨
🦠 How one startup is using probiotics to try and ease the copper shortage
#bacteria #copper #metals #materials #resources #microbes #mining
This newfound cascade of events may explain some #female #gut #pain
#Women of reproductive age more likely than others to report gut problems like #irritablebowelsyndrome (#IBS), and can feel dismissed by doctors, as clinicians often put pain down to diet, stress or hormones.
It was never just “in their heads.” Interplay between an important hormone, chemical signals, rare populations of gut cells and the output of gut #bacteria could explain why.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/female-gut-pain-estrogen-ibs-bacteria
https://archive.ph/o1AH7
🧬 Golden Gate method enables fully-synthetic engineering of therapeutically relevant bacteriophages
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-golden-gate-method-enables-fully.html
#molbio #virus #bacteriophage #bacteria #microbes #biotech #gmo
🐘 Black Ivory coffee: Elephant gut bacteria may contribute to its smooth, chocolaty flavor
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-black-ivory-coffee-elephant-gut.html
Bacteria Communicate Using Techniques Similar to Radio - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBkSmoIrIhs
:blobcatscience: Scientists are hacking Bacteria to fight Cancer, then Self-Destruct.
Bacteria are rapidly emerging as a new class of "living medicines" used to kill cancer cells. We're still a long way from a "cure" for cancer. But one day we could have programmable, self-navigating bacteria that find tumours, release treatment only where needed, then vanish without a trace.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-025-02623-x
#bacteria #living #medicine #cancer #healthcare #science #tech #media #health #nature #news
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⁉️Scanning electron micrograph of white blood cells attacking a cancer cell.⁉️
Current treatments aren't perfect.
Many tumours are hard to treat. Sometimes, treatments cannot penetrate them. Other times, tumours can "fight back" by suppressing certain parts of the immune system, reducing the impact of treatments. Or tumours can develop resistance to treatments.
Using bacteria could overcome these obstacles.
More than a century ago, surgeons noticed some people with cancer who developed bacterial infections unexpectedly went into remission. That is, their cancer signs or symptoms decreased or disappeared.
<https://doi.org/10.1007/s002620100216>
Now we're learning what could explain this. Broadly speaking, bacteria can activate the body's immune system to attack cancer cells.
👾In fact, this approach is already used in the clinic. Bacteria are now the treatment of choice worldwide for certain cases of bladder cancer. When doctors deliver a weakened version of Mycobacterium bovis directly into the bladder through a catheter, the body's immune response destroys the cancer.👾
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⁉️An illustration of Lactobacillus.⁉️
Bacteria could deliver cancer vaccines.
Cancer vaccines work by presenting a cancer's unique molecular "fingerprints", known as tumour antigens, to the immune system so it can hunt down and eliminate tumour cells displaying those antigens.
<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mam.2024.101324>
Bacteria can serve as couriers for these anti-cancer vaccines. Using genetic engineering, the genetic instructions (or DNA) in bacteria that might make us unwell can be removed and replaced with DNA for immune-stimulating tumour antigens.
Listeria monocytogenes is the main character in more than 30 cancer vaccine clinical trials. Unfortunately, most of these trials did not show that these treatments work better than current ones.
<https://doi.org/10.31083/FBL36329>
👾The challenge is teaching the immune system to recognise cancer's telltale antigens strongly enough to remember them, without pushing the body into dangerous overdrive.👾](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/115/973/392/541/170/678/original/7c6ae9549752d99a.jpeg)
Metronidazole is especially effective against:
A. Aerobic bacteria
B. Anaerobic bacteria
C. Helminths
D. Algae
#metronidazole #medication #pharmacology #bacteria ... Continue to: https://www.facebook.com/1130092409221646/posts/1239662151598004
🦠 Microbial glues go from foe to friend with a simple chemical tweak
... my takeaway from the paper is that biofilms are an extension of the bacterial cell wall!
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-microbial-foe-friend-simple-chemical.html
The 9th #BioProScale Symposium will take in #Berlin between 20th and 22nd April.
👉 https://biotechnologie.ifgb.de/bioproscale2026
Next to #bioprocess development also #FAIR #DataManagement will be in the focus
„Applying FAIR data principles to enhance bioprocess #analytics, #reproducibility, and collaborative data sharing“
There are surely some colleagues and institutions here who feel compelled to present their interesting work there.
#biotechnology #research #science #fermentation #bacteria #biomedicine
