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2-pronged protein attack could be source of SARS virulence
Now, UTMB researchers have uncovered what they believe could be the major factor contributing to the SARS virus' virulence: the pathogen's use of a single viral protein to weaken host cell d...
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Read moreThe White Stuff: Marine Lab Team Seeks to Understand Coral Bleaching
Coral bleaching is the whitening of living coral due to a disruption of the symbiosis (two organisms whose living together benefits both) with its zooxanthellae, tiny photosynthesizing algae. These un...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read morePotato blight plight looks promising for food security
Using pathogen genomics, Professor Paul Birch from the Division of Plant Sciences, University of Dundee (at Scottish Crop Research Institute - SCRI), alongside researchers from Warwick HRI and the Uni...
Life Sciences | Read moreDeadly Malaria Jumped to Humans from Wild Chimps
An international research team led by evolutionary geneticist Stephen M. Rich of the University of Massachusetts Amherst has discovered that the parasite Plasmodium falciparum, which causes the deadli...
Life Sciences | Read moreScientists decoding genomic sequences of H1N1 using isolates from outbreak in Argentina
Researchers at the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health are working with Argentina's National Institute of Infectious Diseases, the Natio...
Life Sciences | Read moreMicrobes and their hosts -- exploring the complexity of symbiosis in DNA and cell biology
Insights into the diversity and complexity of symbiotic relationships are the focus of the current special issue of DNA and Cell Biology, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Th...
Life Sciences | Read moreScientists decode genome of deadly parasitic worm
Najib El-Sayed, associate professor in the University of Maryland's College of Chemical and Life Sciences, led the transatlantic research team, along with Matthew Berriman of the UK's Wellco...
Life Sciences | Read moreA Matter of Density, Not Quantity
Infections of wounds, pneumonia, etc. in hospitals in particular are often caused by bacteria called Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Once they reach a certain density, colonies of Pseudomonas aerugino...
Life Sciences | Read moreFinding the constant in bacterial communication
Although they have no sensory organs, bacteria can get a good idea about what's going on in their neighborhood and communicate with each other, mainly by secreting and taking in chemicals from th...
Life Sciences | Read moreSimple measures may prevent transmission of stomach ulcer bacteria
This is shown in a thesis at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. It is therefore possible to prevent the spread of the bacterium in developing countries through some fairly simp...
Health and Medicine | Read morePlant Microbe Shares Features with Drug-Resistant Pathogen
An international team of scientists has discovered extensive similarities between a strain of bacteria commonly associated with plants and one increasingly linked to opportunistic infections in hospit...
Life Sciences | Read moreUSC researchers uncover mechanism that allows influenza virus to evade the body's immune response
The study will be published in the May 21 issue of the journal Cell Host & Microbe. "We have found a mechanism that the influenza virus uses to inhibit the body's immune response tha...
Life Sciences | Read moreRapidly mutating yeast causing more infections
A yeast named Candida glabrata commonly occurs in humans, usually on our skin. It does little harm there. But if it enters the blood system, it can be directly life threatening to people with poor imm...
Life Sciences | Read moreEinstein researchers develop novel antibiotics that don't trigger resistance
The compounds work against two notorious microbes: Vibrio cholerae, which causes cholera; and E. coli 0157:H7, the food contaminant that each year in the U.S. causes approximately 110,000 illnesses an...
Life Sciences | Read moreUT Southwestern researchers probe mechanisms of infection
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center are the first to identify the receptor, known as QseE, which resides in a diarrhea-causing strain of E coli. The receptor senses stress cues from ...
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