Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) and electrospray ionization (ESI) mass spectrometry has become an important tool in the life sciences. Recently, mass spectrometry methods have been ...

Irish Journal of Food Science and Technology, Vol. 13, No. 1 (1989), pp. 23-31 (9 pages) A new method of directly counting bacteria has been developed for beef, based on acridine orange staining of ...

Far too many antibiotics are used around the world. As a result, bacteria are becoming resistant. Curing bacterial diseases is becoming more difficult than before, because antibiotics are perhaps our ...

Why is it important to study bacteria? Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a bacterial strain that can be responsible for several human diseases: the most serious include malignant external otitis, ...

Researcher Lili He and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have devised a low cost, easy to administer method that could help detect the presence of bacteria in food and water ...

Prokaryotes, like eukaryotes, are organisms that store their genetic information in the form of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). However, prokaryotes differ from eukaryotes in that their genetic material ...