At least one strain of this bacterium is able to convert morphine in aqueous solution into the stronger and somewhat expensive to manufacture drug hydromorphone (Dilaudid).

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The new bacterium, nicknamed Synthia, replicates and produces proteins.

A bacterium, which has no consciousness at all, wants to move towards light.

What you're looking at on this slide is just a person from my lab holding a flask of a liquid culture of a bacterium, a harmless beautiful bacterium that comes from the ocean, named Vibrio fischeri.

What we now know is that if we treat the animal with a pathogenic bacterium a multi drug resistant pathogenic bacterium in the same time we give our anti quorum sensing molecule, in fact, the animal lives.

It is a streptogramin group antibiotic, similar to virginiamycin, derived from the bacterium Streptomyces pristinaespiralis .

This relationship, however, is not always without strain.

The holoprotein (protein heme cofactor) is widely believed to be a product of both plant and the bacterium in which the apoprotein is produced by the plant and the heme (an iron atom bound in a porphyrin ring) is produced by the bacterium.

This bacterium has the special property that it makes light, so it makes bioluminescence, like fireflies make light.

If Ouch is right! If you see this, and you're a bacterium, this is like your worst nightmare.

Yet freedom of speech in the West is under strain.

The Russian strain of political messianism is pretty much exhausted.

For example, additional letters may be added to indicate a strain.

This transfer of genetic sequences from parasites to hosts could involve hundreds of genes for a bacterium in different hosts.

Griffith concluded that the type II R had been transformed into the lethal III S strain by a transforming principle that was somehow part of the dead III S strain bacteria.

For example, refugees leaving Sudan can strain the stability of neighboring Chad.

Prolonged periods of strain tend to weaken the fabric of institutional cooperation.

You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!

Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

They typically represent sites of viral multiplication in a bacterium or a eukaryotic cell and usually consist of viral capsid proteins.

To what extent the EU can take this strain, only time will tell.

The immense response by central banks and finance ministries has eased the strain.

Under tremendous strain, Tymoshenko s government succeeded in keeping the budget deficit under control.

We realize that reporting can be a strain on already limited administrative resources.

With data from more than 900 scientific papers reported on the bacterium, researchers developed the software model using the object oriented programming approach.

In January 2003, Anastacia decided to have her breasts reduced because of back strain.

One strain of HPAI A(H5N1) is spreading globally after first appearing in Asia.

BERLIN When placed under too much strain, chains tend to break at the weakest link.

And experts worry that the novel H1N1 virus could mutate into a more severe strain.

It is a strain to think that governments have the same motivations as private citizens.

Nor does the ECB have reason to be gratified with its strain of quantitative easing.

Many references to bird flu and H5N1 in the popular media refer to this strain.

Others have pointed out that, although the team produced a synthetic genome, they put it into a cell from another bacterium, replacing that cell s DNA.

For starters, the Sprague Dawley strain of rats that he used is naturally prone to tumors.

For example, a flu strain is a certain biological form of the influenza or flu virus.

But what is the matter with the unbelievers , that they strain their glances continuously towards them ,

But the system for protecting human rights at the international level is today under considerable strain.

The way this showed up in the textbook, it looked like this Bacteriophage replication is initiated through the introduction of viral nucleic acid into a bacterium.

For example, if the bacterium Wolbachia s genes are integrated by different hosts, such as spiders, insects, or worms, the hosts offspring are also descendants of Wolbachia.

The strain on Syria s neighbors is immense, and the conflict is inexorably seeping into the wider region.

A number of critical issues were placing a great strain on the fragile situation on the ground.

But with synthetic biology, we can actually imagine engineering this bacterium to produce something that gives us the quality, quantity and shape of material that we desire.

If you lop this off and attach it to the tail of a different bacterium, which creates a vigorous immune response, they've created a very powerful flu fighter.

Once ingested or placed in an open wound, the bacterium begins multiplying inside the animal or human and typically kills the host within a few days or weeks.