Sentences with phrase «lab dishes against»

While still far from being declared a true antibiotic drug, the compound teixobactin tested well in lab dishes against Clostridium difficile, a microbe high on doctors» most - wanted list, as well as against bacteria that cause anthrax and tuberculosis.

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To find out whether enlisting predatory bacteria might be crazy good and not just plain crazy, Kadouri's lab group tested B. bacteriovorus» killing ability against an array of bacteria in lab dishes in 2010.

Then the researchers pitted the bugs against a batch of susceptible strains, dumping both onto lab dishes to see which would reproduce more effectively.

However, most of these efforts failed, even though the antibody - IL - 2 combination usually works very well against cancer cells grown in a lab dish.