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A subdivision of microbiology dedicated to the study of bacteria.
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Hot water and bacteria
The bacteria wouldn't see any benefit from the warm water in the ~30-60 seconds you're washing your hands, neither would hot water "sterilize" your hands at temperatures you could tolerate. The reason …
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Is there any way the food industry can benefit from biofilms?
inf3rno's comment provides a great example, in the production of vinegar (Food Safety Magazine):
In the production of some fermented foods, biofilms are an essential element for optimum production …
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Medium for Pseudomonas?
Pseudomonas bacteria are generally not difficult to grow:
Rugged and opportunistic, Pseudomonas use a wide range of nutritional sources, even very simple nutritional environments without any organic …
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Cleavage of RNA by restriction enzymes?
As to why they don't recognize RNA-DNA heteroduplexes (which are present during transcription, for example), I suspect that the methylation which protects bacterial genomic dsDNA (see the DNA modifyin …