Challenges and pitfalls of inferring microbial growth rates from lab cultures

AH Ghenu, L Marrec, C Bank - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction After more than 100 years of generating monoculture batch culture growth
curves, microbial ecologists and evolutionary biologists still lack a reference method for …

Rapid and accurate testing for urinary tract infection: new clothes for the emperor

RB Moreland, L Brubaker, L Tinawi… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2024 - journals.asm.org
Urinary tract infection (UTI) is among the most common infections in clinical practice. In
some cases, if left untreated, it can lead to pyelonephritis and urosepsis. In other cases, UTI …

Bee pollen extracts: Chemical composition, antioxidant properties, and effect on the growth of selected probiotic and pathogenic bacteria

CI Ilie, E Oprea, EI Geana, A Spoiala, M Buleandra… - Antioxidants, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper evaluated the chemical and biological properties of bee pollen samples from
Romania. Firstly, the bee pollen alcoholic extracts (BPEs) were obtained from raw bee …

Autoencoder neural networks enable low dimensional structure analyses of microbial growth dynamics

Y Baig, HR Ma, H Xu, L You - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
The ability to effectively represent microbiome dynamics is a crucial challenge in their
quantitative analysis and engineering. By using autoencoder neural networks, we show that …

System‐wide optimization of an orthogonal translation system with enhanced biological tolerance

K Mohler, JM Moen, S Rogulina… - Molecular Systems …, 2023 - embopress.org
Over the past two decades, synthetic biological systems have revolutionized the study of
cellular physiology. The ability to site‐specifically incorporate biologically relevant non …

MIL-101 (Fe)@ Ag rapid synergistic antimicrobial and biosafety evaluation of nanomaterials

X Li, H Zheng, J Chen, M Xu, Y Bai, T Liu - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), which have become popular in recent years as excellent
carriers of drugs and biomimetic materials, have provided new research ideas for fighting …

V2C Nanosheets as Dual-Functional Antibacterial Agents

S Zada, H Lu, F Yang, Y Zhang, Y Cheng… - ACS applied bio …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains have been continuously increasing and becoming a
supreme threat to public health globally. The nanoparticle-based photothermal treatment …

Zein-based films containing monolaurin/eugenol or essential oils with potential for bioactive packaging application

J Sedlarikova, M Janalikova, P Peer… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Zein is renewable plant protein with valuable film-forming properties that can be used as a
packaging material. It is known that the addition of natural cross-linkers can enhance a film's …

Case studies in the assessment of microbial fitness: seemingly subtle changes can have major effects on phenotypic outcomes

SB Worthan, RDP McCarthy, MG Behringer - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Springer
Following the completion of an adaptive evolution experiment, fitness evaluations are
routinely conducted to assess the magnitude of adaptation. In doing so, proper …

[HTML][HTML] N-((1H-Pyrrol-2-yl) methylene)-6-methoxypyridin-3-amine and its Co (II) and Cu (II) complexes as antimicrobial agents: Chemical preparation, in vitro …

VH Mariwamy, SP Kollur, B Shivananda, M Begum… - Molecules, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Researchers are interested in Schiff bases and their metal complexes because they offer a
wide range of applications. The chemistry of Schiff bases of heterocompounds has got a lot …