The cholera Vibrio lives in zooplankton and can be found in bays, estuaries and rivers in temperate and tropical regions. “Scientists have established a…
About half the world’s oxygen is being produced by tiny photosynthesising creatures called phytoplankton in the major oceans. These organisms are also…
The sugars, or oligosaccharides, are called galacto-oligosaccharides and are already known to improve the health of breast-fed infants. They may also reduce…
“A single adaptive trait such as color could move a population towards the process of forming a new species, but adaptation in many traits may be required to…
Researchers in the Cardiff School of Biosciences will work with international colleagues on the ‘Giant Panda Genome Project’. The panda is often referred to as…
With one, they can cast back through generations to pinpoint the genes behind inherited illness. With another, they have isolated 11 variations within…
Many top-selling drugs used to treat cancer and lower cholesterol are made from organic compounds called polyketides, which are found in nature but…
Carcinomas are cancers that develop from epithelial tissue, which lines internal and external body surfaces. When normal cells are transformed into cancer…
“This gas has many different effects”, says Dr Andrew Curson from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK. “It triggers clouds to form over the oceans –…
“Doctors in many countries have gone back to using old antibiotics that were abandoned 20 years ago because their toxic side effects were so frequent and so…
Although they are too small to see with the naked eye, bacteria are also attacked by viruses, but specific ones that only infect bacteria, not human or animal…
Some strains of Staphylococcus aureus produce a potent toxin called Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL). PVL-Staphylococcus aureus (PVL-SA) usually causes skin…
A discovery described as “true serendipity” made by Leeds University PhD student Dr Yahya Bahnasi, has provided a clue that may unravel the enigma of general…
Hydrogen is considered to be a clean storage and transport medium for energy. Therefore many future scenarios are based on the storage and transport of…
Reported this month in the online edition of the Journal of Proteome Research, the advance could one day lead to earlier detection and improved treatment of…
However, it has not been known what happens between the pathogen attacks and the defense activation, until now. A new MU study revealed a very complex process…
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