Journal: Biomedical Reports

Article Title: Ethanolic extracts from deep marine sponges: A new frontier in antibacterial discovery from the Jordanian Gulf of Aqaba

doi: 10.3892/br.2026.2117

Figure Lengend Snippet: Results of the agar well diffusion assay for antibacterial activity against: Escherichia coli , Staphylococcus epidermidis , Klebsiella aerogenes , Staphylococcus aureus , Bacillus pumilus and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus . Where Stelletta sp. (Sponge 1), D. cf. elegans (Sponge 2), Axinella sp. (Sponge 3) with concentrations (5, 10, 15, 20 mg/ml). Gentamycin (10 µg): Positive control for all bacteria, Vancomycin (30 µg): MRSA-specific positive control, and 80% DMSO: Negative control. MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

Article Snippet: The antibacterial efficacy of ethanolic extract was assessed using six bacterial strains, including S. aureus (ATCC 29213), Staphylococcus epidermidis ( S. epidermidis ; ATCC 51625) and Bacillus pumilus (isolate) as Gram-positive bacteria, and Klebsiella aerogenes (isolate) and E. coli (ATCC 25922) as Gram-negative bacteria.

Techniques: Diffusion-based Assay, Activity Assay, Positive Control, Bacteria, Negative Control

Journal: bioRxiv

Article Title: Biodegradable Intra-arterial Devices for Focal Drug Delivery to Targeted Organs

doi: 10.64898/2026.02.23.707478

Figure Lengend Snippet: In vitro drug activity of CIS released from the CIS-loaded IADD devices against F98 glioma cells. (A) IC 50 curve of CIS. (B) Percentage of glioma cell viability when exposed to the release media collected from CIS-loaded IADD device (blue) versus non-drug-loaded control device (black). ‘Medium collection day’ refers to the day that the release media were collected. (C) Mg 2+ and Ca 2+ ion concentrations in the culture media of the F98 cells doped with CIS-loaded IADD release media (solid lines). Dashed lines reflect ion concentrations from culture media controls: 0.8 mM (19.4 mg/L) of Mg 2+ (bottom right y-axis) and 1.8 mM (72.1 mg/L) of Ca 2+ (top right y-axis).

Article Snippet: F98 glioma cells (CRL-2397, ATCC) were used to assess the anti-cancer activity of CIS released from the CIS-loaded IADD devices using SRB assay [ ].

Techniques: In Vitro, Activity Assay, Control

Journal: Microorganisms

Article Title: Draft Genome Sequence of Bacillus sp. Strain 11B20, a Promising Plant-Growth Promoting Bacterium Associated with Maize ( Zea mays L.) in the Yaqui Valley, Mexico

doi: 10.3390/microorganisms14020485

Figure Lengend Snippet: 16S rRNA-based phylogenetic relation between strain 11B20 and its closely related Bacillus species: Bacillus safensis subsp. safensis FO-36b T ( ASJD01000027 ), B. safensis subsp. osmophilus BC09 T ( KY990920 ), Bacillus zhangzhouensis DW5-4 T ( JOTP01000061 ), B. pumilus ATCC 7061 ( ABRX01000007 ), B. australimaris NH7I_1 T ( JX680098 ), B. altitudinis 41KF2b T ( ASJC01000029 ), and B. xiamenensis HYC-10 T ( AMSH01000114 ). B. vallismortis DV1-F-3 T ( JH600237 ) was designated as the outgroup. This relation was established using CLC Sequence Viewer version 8.0, applying the Jukes–Cantor nucleotide distance measure and the neighbor-joining construction model (based on 1000 bootstrap replications). The scale bar (0.015) indicates the number of nucleotide substitutions per site.

Article Snippet: Bacillus pumilus , ATCC 7061 T , ABRX01000007 , 99.91.

Techniques: Sequencing