News tagged with african sleeping sickness
Genital stimulation opens door for cryptic female choice in tsetse flies
May 14, 2009 |
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Manipulation of male and/or female genitalia results in a suite of changes in female reproductive behavior in tsetse flies, carriers of African sleeping sickness.
Parasite breaks its own DNA to avoid detection
Apr 15, 2009 |
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The parasite Trypanosoma brucei, which causes African sleeping sickness, is like a thief donning a disguise. Every time the host's immune cells get close to destroying the parasite, it escapes detection by rearranging its DN ...
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Nuclear science to fight sleeping sickness
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The International Atomic Energy Agency on Friday announced an agreement to help African nations battle the tsetse fly, the main carrier of parasites that causes sleeping sickness with its bites.
Revealing secrets of 'African sleeping sickness'
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Oct 27, 2008 |
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Scientists in the United Kingdom and Russia are reporting identification of a long-sought chink in the armor of the parasite that causes African sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease that kills at least 50,000 people each ...
African sleeping sickness could be eliminated say tropical disease experts
Feb 26, 2008 |
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While the annual number of new detected cases of African sleeping sickness has been falling since the late 1990s, there could still be a resurgence of the disease unless control efforts are maintained, say tropical disease ...
Put sleeping sickness bug to sleep
Mar 09, 2007 |
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An Israeli researcher has found a way to kill the parasite that causes sleeping sickness.
Breakthrough in treatment of sleeping sickness
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Glasgow have made a significant breakthrough in the treatment of Sleeping Sickness, otherwise known as Human African Trypanosomasis.
Sleeping sickness finding could lead to earlier diagnosis
Apr 14, 2008 |
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Sleeping sickness creates a metabolic 'fingerprint' in the blood and urine, which could enable a new test to be developed to diagnose the disease, according to new research published today in the journal Proceedings of th ...
Researchers discover how human body fights off African parasite
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Sep 07, 2007 |
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Trypanosoma are a nasty class of single-celled parasites that cause serious, even fatal, diseases in human and animals. Two species cause sleeping sickness, a disease that threatens all of sub–Saharan Africa. There’s a catch ...
Virtual screening leads to real progress in drug design
Oct 28, 2008 |
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Around 150,000 people per year get African sleeping sickness, a disease spread by the biting tsetse fly and caused by the parasite Trypanosoma brucei. Unless treated, the illness is invariably fatal. And ...
African parasite makes component of fat differently from all other organisms
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Aug 24, 2006 |
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Studying the parasite that causes African sleeping sickness, scientists at Johns Hopkins have discovered a previously unknown way of making fatty acids, a component of fat and the outer layer of all cells. The find unveils ...
Children from low income families more likely to have sleep problems
May 02, 2007 |
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Children from low income families have more sleep problems than children from middle class families, potentially impacting their health and performance at school, according to research that will be presented at the American ...
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