Tag Archives : Bacteria

Sanitization at a gym is of primary importance as different people use the same equipment every day. With the amount of sweat during some workouts a simple wiping out of the equipment with a towel and disinfectant is not sufficient. The manufacturers are moving towards self-cleaning equipment that wipes sweat away and keeps people protected from harmful [...]

One of the challenges for professionals involved in the recovery of burn patients is to shorten the length of hospitalization to prevent infectious complications. The use of Biocure produced from bacterial cellulose – which enables faster regeneration of skin – is one of promising alternatives. Researchers at the Institute of Chemistry, [...]

The mean machine is an important of our lives. For some it’s their lifeblood of work or a gaming tool and some have simply surrendered to the plethora of stuff that Internet has to offer. So our computer table is forced to be our coffee and dining table thereby shooting the levels of bacteria around it. Thank God, nobody came up with a toilet-seat-combined-computer [...]

Doctoral student Sybel Saska, Institute of Chemistry, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Araraquara campus, was honored during the 88th International Association for Dental Research General Session, held in July in Barcelona. Sybel, featuring Doctoral Scholarship from FAPESP, was among the top five for the work entitled New [bacterial cellulose-collagen]-hydroxyapatite [...]

These little dental cavity savers have been named as Soladey-J3X and are made by a Japanese Company. Dr. Gerry Uswak and Dr. Kunio Komiyama led a team of generous scientists to come up with this creation and I must say that this is going to be their gift to mankind and this is no exaggeration as we are talking about happy gums and no plaque related [...]

Enzymes can “create” fuel from the air. It may seem impossible for the layman, but scientists do not rule out the hypothesis. Cars can be, one day, powered by air, through the use of bacteria. Scientists have discovered an enzyme in roots of soybean seeds that can be used as energy to move the car The Vanadium Nitrogenase can produce ammonia [...]

Landmines are arguably the gravest threat to both humans and wildlife alike in almost 87 countries across the planet and with war times long behind us the ugly scars and the undetonated landmines still haunt those who wish to put the past behind them. In countries such as Sri Lanka over 20 elephants each year are killed by landmines while men and women [...]

There are strange infections – and even stranger ones because we never thought they were virally transmitted and coming from bacteria, instead of just resulting from unhealthy lifestyle, genetics, or ageing. ‘A growing number of diseases that were thought to be down to genetics or lifestyle turn out to have an infectious origin.’ For starters, [...]

These days, germs, bacteria, and viruses are not all discarded and deemed harmful, especially the ancient kind. In fact, they are being used to ‘assemble the electronics of the future.’ Viruses are now used as building components of solar cells and other gadgets. The type of germs used is called ‘bacteriophages’ or ‘bacteria eaters.’ They [...]

Ever wonder where some of the dust, fungal spores, germs, and bacteria go during wind storms? They travel great distances, that’s where. A big part of the volume reaches the atmosphere and gets stored in clouds. In fact, they help in cloud formation. Of course, we can just stretch our imagination a bit and we’ll know that these germs and bacteria [...]