Natural Science Forum / Biology / Microbiology / November 2004

New multi-lingual website on food ingredients, production and food
safety :
http://www.food-info.net
The site is still in development, although a lot of information is

streptococcus infection in childhood, if untreated leads to rheumatic fever.

Rotifer system /culture units in India & Egypt.
Kindly give address and contact numbers for appointment
i wish to see few units (first hand knowledge ).
And few websites to see photos of marine rotifers( for identification

Hey gang,
My question is pertaining to naturally occuring plasmids.  For example
a plasmid that is part of the strain in nature and not transformed in
the lab.  Laboratory transformations inolve a selectable marker such

Hello everyone i am Neurologist and a part time human biologist and i
am writing a thesis on stomach depressions when the food is taken by
the person.

Shrimp Juvenile
Juveniles from sea were collected  and kept in all glass tank, latter
on in a plastic box we brought two types of sand ,dividing the box
with two type of sand :one very fine & other crumbles like ,then

hello, i'm not very competent in the sector of microbiology, i'm an italian
student graduating in ind chemistry but have to take microbiology
examination next month... so what can you do for me? you could recommend me
a website, if it does exist of course, where i can find an ...

A simple question: someone can tell me who is, in Italy, the retailer of
Rambach agar (medium for isolation of Salmonella,  - dehydrated powder).
thanks in advance.
Franco

I guess this is more of whimsical posturing rather than a question.
But I have just finished reading a chapter of my textbook
(Microbiology:Principes and Explorations: Jacquelyn Black) which goes
into some depth to explain Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic cell structure

I was wondering if someone could help me out with the results of an e.
coli transformation i peformed...
The water control (water treated culture) on a LP-Amp plate has no
bacterial colonies (as expected), but there is the presence of 2

Is it possible to genetically-engineer bacteria to use acids, acidic
substances, sulphides, oxides [including smoke], ketones, skatole,
phosphides, sulfates, phopshates, sodium ions, halogens [atomic,
ionic, isotopic], sulfur, phosphorus, carbon [ash, charcoal, etc.]