He was forty-nine years old. Leprosy -- also called Hansen's disease is a bacterial disease that causes skin wounds and nerve damage.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

To make that genome, the researchers replaced all the natural genetic material in a bacterial cell with a synthetic set of genes.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

Picking beans from wet plants can spread bean bacterial blight, a disease that damages the plants.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

People with sickle cell disease can suffer severe pain, bacterial infections and the death of tissue.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

He says bunchy top disease and banana bacterial wilt can both affect entire plantations.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

Banana bacterial wilt was first reported in Ethiopia in the late nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

Breast milk can help slow bacterial growth and acid production in the mouth.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

EU officials estimate the bacterial outbreak has cost farmers millions of dollars.

VOA: special.2011.06.10

Buruli ulcer is a bacterial disease that eats away muscle tissue.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

Many antibiotic medicines currently in use block bacterial ribosomes from action.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

They die from bacterial infections for which there are new vaccines.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

This makes it easier to get viral and bacterial infections.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

Bacteria cannot survive without bacterial ribosomes.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

"We are here today to announce the first synthetic cell -- a cell made by starting with the digital code in the computer, building the chromosome from four bottles of chemicals, assembling that chromosome in yeast, transplanting it into a recipient bacterial cell and transforming that cell into a new bacterial species."

VOA: special.2010.07.20

Women who gave birth vaginally transferred the unique mix, their unique "community" of vaginal bacterial to the newborn baby.

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

His parents died of tuberculosis. So when Bolivar developed a chronic cough, fever and weight loss, the same bacterial infection was suspected.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

"They have also shown how bacterial ribosomes can be stopped dead in their tracks by various antibiotics, thereby providing insights that help researchers design new drugs to be used in our never-ending fight against bacterial infections,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.07

"And that was in direct contrast with the c-section babies, who harbored bacterial communities that resembled human skin, but not their own mother's human skin any more than any of the other mothers in the study."

VOA: standard.2010.06.30