Photothermally active nanoparticles as a promising tool for eliminating bacteria and biofilms

Coral-Associated Bacteria as a Promising Antibiofilm Agent against Methicillin-Resistant and -Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Biofilms

The current study deals with the evaluation of two coral-associated bacterial (CAB) extracts to inhibit the biofilm synthesis in vitro as well as the virulence production like hemolysin and exopolysaccharide (EPS), and also to assess their ability to modify the adhesion properties, that is cell surface hydrophobicity (CSH) of methicillin-resistant (MRSA) and -susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (...

Camphor as a promising insecticude for control

FISHing for bacteria in food--a promising tool for the reliable detection of pathogenic bacteria?

Foodborne pathogens cause millions of infections every year and are responsible for considerable economic losses worldwide. The current gold standard for the detection of bacterial pathogens in food is still the conventional cultivation following standardized and generally accepted protocols. However, these methods are time-consuming and do not provide fast information about food contaminations...

Genetic monitoring as a promising tool for conservation and management.

In response to ever-increasing anthropogenic changes to natural ecosystems, regional, national and international organizations have established guidelines for monitoring biological diversity. Most monitoring programs, however, do not take full advantage of the potential afforded by molecular genetic markers, which can provide information relevant to both ecological and evolutionary time frames,...

Cooperative nanoparticles for tumor detection and photothermally triggered drug delivery.

[*] Prof. M. J. Sailor, J.-H. Park Materials Science and Engineering Program Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman, La Jolla, CA 92093 (USA) E-mail: [email protected] Prof. S. N. Bhatia, G. von Maltzahn Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusett...