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  • 22 May 2013 - ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE/NATURE COMMUNICATIONS

    Vitamin C can kill drug-resistant TB

    Mycobacterium tuberculosis, tuberculosis

    Colorized scanning electron micrograph of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria. Source: CDC/ R. Butler; J. Carr

    In a striking, unexpected discovery, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have determined that vitamin C kills drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) bacteria in laboratory culture. The finding suggests that vitamin C added to existing TB drugs could shorten TB therapy, and it highlights... [ more ]

Perspectives

  • 14 May 2013 - SUPER-RESOLUTION IMAGING

    Let there be light – microscopy beyond the diffraction barrier

    HIV, Shigella, immune evasion

    New approaches allow to recover even details of virus particles, which, by contrast, conventional microscopy cannot visualize. © Pasteur Institut

    Superresolution optical microscopy is revolutionizing biology. The pioneers of this nanoscopy used clever tricks to enhance the established methods of fluorescence microscopy and push beyond the once insurmountable resolution limits of optical microscopy. For the first time, researchers could even watch molecules perform their biochemical tasks, image virus particles in detail and visualize infection processes. [ more ]

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  • 15 May 2012 - PROTEOMICS, BIOINFORMATICS

    "I always need to know what my research is for"

    Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, biofilms

    Prof. Dr. Katharina Riedel is Professor for microbiology at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University in Greifswald, Germany, vice director of the Institute for Microbiology and head of the AG "Physiological Proteomics & Bioinformatics". Her main research interests are the molecular basis of infections caused by opportunistic pathogens and metaproteomics of microbial communities in terrestic and aquatic  environments. [ more ]

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