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Plans moving forward for Medizone International's hospital sterilization system, AsepticSure

Medizone International, Inc. Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Edwin Marshall, today outlined the company's plans moving forward for its hospital sterilization system, AsepticSure(TM).

18 Dec 2009

New imagining technique may yield better antiviral and anti-cancer drugs

A recently devised method of imaging the chemical communication and warfare between microorganisms could lead to new antibiotics, antifungal, antiviral and anti-cancer drugs, said a Texas AgriLife Research scientist.

10 Nov 2009

New antibiotics could come from a DNA binding compound that kills bacteria in 2 minutes

A synthetic DNA binding compound has proved surprisingly effective at binding to the DNA of bacteria and killing all the bacteria it touched within two minutes.

8 Jun 2009

Genes that make bacteria make up their minds

Bacteria are single cell organisms with no nervous system or brain.

29 Mar 2009

Discovery fleshes out metabolism of key environmental and energy bacteria

An international collaboration of researchers has discovered a new enzyme in a species of bacteria with potential environmental cleanup and energy roles.

2 Feb 2009

Discovery of pathway that controls cell size and division

Organisms precisely regulate cell size to ensure that daughter cells have sufficient cellular material to thrive or to create specific cell types: a tiny sperm versus a gargantuan egg for example.

1 Aug 2007

Nutrition and heredity genetically linked

A challenging goal in biology is to understand how the principal cellular functions are integrated so that cells achieve viability and optimal fitness under a wide range of nutritional conditions.

17 May 2007

Researchers develop technique to concentrate, manipulate and separate a wide class of swimming bacteria

The technique is based on the transmission of tiny electric current in a very thin film sample cell containing a colony of bacteria. The current produces electrolysis that changes the local pH level in the vicinity of the electrodes.

18 Apr 2007

How DNA is packed

The life cycles of many viruses include a self-assembly stage in which a powerful molecular motor must pack the DNA genome into the virus's preformed shell (the capsid). How it manages this intricate feat has been subject to debate, but we know that the DNA passes into the capsid shell through a channel formed by a structure called the connector. Scientists have speculated that rotation of the connector complex might feed the DNA into the capsid as it turns.

20 Feb 2007