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(Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research) Dutch researcher Joost Wiersinga from AMC Medical Center in Amsterdam has unravelled a genetic defense mechanism against the lethal bacteria Burkholderia pseudomallei.

The research is the next step towards a vaccine against this bacterium suitable for bioweapons.

Researchers from Sweden and Finland have developed a rapid and specific method that may detect the bacterium Yersinia enterocolitica, a common cause of gastric illness, in food.

The food poisoning bacterium Listeria could survive on surfaces in meat processing factories if certain other bacteria are present, scientists report.

An infectious ocean-dwelling bacterium found in oysters and other shellfish kills its host's cells by causing them to burst, providing the invader with a nutrient-rich meal, researchers have found.

(Texas A&M University) "E. coli has more than four thousand genes, and the functions of one-fourth of these remain unknown," says Dr.

Deborah Siegele, a biology professor at Texas A&M University whose laboratory specializes in carrying out research using the bacterium.

Researchers have made a major step forward in their work to develop a biologically engineered organism that can effectively deliver an antigen in the body.

The researchers report that they have been able to use live salmonella bacterium as the containment/delivery method for an antigen.

(Arizona State University) Researchers at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University have made a major step forward in their work to develop a biologically engineered organism that can effectively deliver an antigen in the body.

The researchers report that they have been able to use live salmonella bacterium as the containment/delivery method for an antigen.

A tiny but powerful engine that propels the bacterium Bacillus subtilis through liquids is disengaged from the corkscrew-like flagellum by a protein clutch, scientists have learned.

Scientists have long known what drives the flagellum to spin, but what causes the flagellum to stop spinning -- temporarily or permanently -- was unknown.

Scientists have determined the structure of a key protein domain in a bacterium that could help with bioremediation of uranium-contaminated land sites.

Cornell researchers are studying bacterium big enough to see -- the Shaquille O'Neal of bacteria. The secret to an unusual bacterium's massive size -- it's the size of a grain of salt, or a million times bigger than E. coli bacteria, and big enough to see with the naked eye -- may be found in its ability to copy its genome tens of thousands of times.