Category: Bacteria

Laguna Colorada lays at a height of 4278 m in Bolivia. The red colour is created by the bacteria, which collect the red pigment internally.

The huge potential of bioplastics

Nowadays it is possible to produce plastics from sugar or vegetable oils, but up to now fossil oil has been too cheap for the production of bioplastics to be profitable. That explains why the plastic-producing bacteria, developed some years ago by researchers at the Centre for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering...

You can’t escape bacteria

Bacteria as an organism All things now living on Earth belong to one of the three main groups called Bacteria, Archaea and Eukaryotes (all plants and animals are included here). The organisms we commonly call bacteria belong to the group bacteria or archaea. Bacteria are usually small, approximately one micrometre,...

Our drinking water pipes are teeming with bacteria

Researchers have discovered that our drinking water to a large extent seems to be purified by ‘good bacteria’ in pipes and not only in the water purification plants as was previously believed. Do you think that our drinking water is sterile? It’s not. One glass of clean drinking water contains...

Bacteria in food more expensive than previously believed

According to a new analysis from AgriFood Economics Centre focusing on the economic impact of five common foodborne diseases, the costs associated with food poisoning in Sweden exceed SEK 1 billion per year. That’s nearly SEK 500 million more than previously estimated. A STUDY published 2015 at the AgriFood Economics...

Inga Odenholt, Professor of Infectious Diseases.

Penicillin – an abused miracle cure

Opinion by Inga Odenholt, Professor of Infectious Diseases with a deep committment to the issue of rational use of antibiotics and reduced antibiotic resistance. Today there are bacteria resistant to all known types of antibiotics, and it has become increasingly difficult for the pharmaceutical industry to develop new solutions. Almost...

Breast milk protein can become a new weapon against resistant bacteria

Research is already underway on how the breast milk protein HAMLET can be used to treat cancer. Findings from Lund University indicate that it may even kill two types of respiratory bacteria. At the same time, the protein can make partially resistant bacteria – which every year claim many lives...