Vaginal microbe yields novel antibiotic

In the article of Hayden; there is the focus on the Lactobacillus; which is the interesting and good post as it is used as the drug; there are thousands of the human microbiome that can be used as the antibiotics. Lactobacillus is the bacteria found in the human female vagina and it produces the chemical Lactobacilli which is actually an antibiotic used to kill other micro organisms like staphylococcus aurous which causes skin infection. Similarly, there are other bacteria found on the human body which produce many chemicals which act as antibiotics. Drug companies are working on finding more antibiotic producing bacteria which use human body as landscape for antibiotic production. Human micro biome is a rich source of undiscovered drugs which will be proven in near future as a lot of work is being done in this field (Hayden, 2014).

Cell factories for insulin production

In the article of Nabih; there is focus on the number of diabetic people is increasing at an alarming level which is leading to the escalating demands of insulin. Insulin demands are increasing manifold than its production. This article is interesting because the insulin is produced by bacteria E.coli and yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae using their manufacturing system. The article also evaluates the that the scientists are now working on producing insulin using other microorganisms and transgenic plants. It is proposed that plants will be able to produce cost-effective insulin in short time. Moreover, pro insulin which is a form of oral insulin will be gotten from plants in addition to the regular insulin. (Nabih A Baeshen, 2014).

Infectious diarrhea spores survive high temperatures of hospital laundering:

In the article by the Sciencedaily.com there is foucs on the infectious diarrhea. This article is interesting as the article tell that the clostridium difficle is a bacteria causing diarrhea in hospitals. This bacterium is found in the contaminated bed sheets of the hospital and washing these bed sheets with un-contaminated bed sheets also contaminates those. Washing bed sheets with commercial detergents and hospital-specific thermal disinfection failed to remove the bacteria from bed sheets; according to an experiment. The article also evaluates the scientists are working keenly to find ways of disinfecting bed sheets and removing Codify from the bed sheets so that rate of hospital acquired diarrhea can be minimized. Currently no method of disinfecting bed sheets is available. (Sciencedaily.com, 2018)

Link found between ALS and SMA

This article is interesting as there is information related to the ALS and SMA. In the article by the Chakradhar; it is analyzed that the author discusses about the Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) are two fatal conditions occurring in adults and children respectively. Certain links are found between two over the years. On link is that the cause of death in both these is the respiratory muscles failure. Another link is that in ALS, mutation in FUS gene leading to loss of survival of motor neuron (SMN) protein occurs which is also found in SMA. The article also evaluates that a recently a new link is found according to which the fibroblasts taken from live patient’s skin of ALS and SMA showed mutated FUS gene and decreased SMN proteins level. Through focus on the article, it is analyzed that author effectively managed the information of the SMN proteins level and ALS and SMA (Chakradhar, 2012).

Injecting tumors with gangrene-causing bacteria could help fight late-stage cancers, study reveals

In the article by Matthews-King, there is the analysis of the cancer stages that after the chemotherapy, radiotherapy and operative ways of cancer treatments, scientists are now interested in the “bacterial therapy that kill the cancer cells by injecting in those”. According to recent researches, this bacterium can be used to It is analyzed in the article that Clostridum noyvi-NT is an anaerobic bacteria growing in dead tissues. It will not harm the healthy cells due to presence of oxygen in them. This article is interesting as it provide the great information and these properties make this bacterium an excellent anti-cancer treatment. This bacterium may be future of the anti-cancer treatments and increase the survival of cancer patients (Matthews-King, 2018).

References of Microbiology Substantive Post

Chakradhar, S. (2012, September 27). Link found between ALS and SMA. Retrieved from https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/09/link-found-between-als-and-sma/

Hayden, E. C. (2014, September 11). Vaginal microbe yields novel antibiotic. Retrieved from https://www.nature.com/news/vaginal-microbe-yields-novel-antibiotic-1.15900

Matthews-King, A. (2018, September 30). Injecting tumurous with gangerane causing bacteria could help fight late stage cancers . Retrieved from https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/cancer-treatment-bacteria-gangrene-therapy-sarcoma-melanoma-immunotherapy-chemo-texas-university-a8561076.html

Nabih A Baeshen. (2014). Cell factories for insulin production. Retrieved from https://microbialcellfactories.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12934-014-0141-0

Sciencedaily.com. (2018). Infectious diarrhea spores survive high temperatures of hospital laundering. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181016110105.htm