News tagged with amoebae
Contact lenses are home to pathogenic amoebae
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Oct 20, 2008 |
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Contact lenses increase the risk of infection with pathogenic protozoa that can cause blindness. New research, published in the November issue of the Journal of Medical Microbiology, shows that a high percentage of contac ...
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Cooling towers may host new pathogens
Aug 21, 2006 |
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Cooling towers may be hot spots where new forms of disease-causing bacteria emerge, scientists report.
Some cheaters can keep it in their genes
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Mar 13, 2008 |
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A new study examining social behaviour suggests certain individuals are genetically programmed to cheat and often will do... providing they can get away with it.
Biofilms use chemical weapons
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Jul 23, 2008 |
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Bacteria rarely come as loners; more often they grow in crowds and squat on surfaces where they form a community together. These so-called biofilms develop on any surface that bacteria can attach themselves ...
Texas-sized tract of single-celled clones
Mar 11, 2009 |
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A Rice University study of microbes from a Houston-area cow pasture has confirmed once again that everything is bigger in Texas, even the single-celled stuff. The tests revealed the first-ever report of a ...
Amoebae control cheating by keeping it in the family
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Jul 05, 2007 |
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No one likes a cheater, even a single-celled one. New research from Rice University shows how cooperative single-celled amoebae rely on family ties to keep cheaters from undermining the health of their colonies. The research ...
Silencing of jumping genes in pollen
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Feb 05, 2009 |
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Scientists at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), in Portugal, are to date the only research group in the world capable of isolating the sperm cells in the pollen grain of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. This ...
Study shows how Salmonella survives in environment
Mar 23, 2009 |
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Scientists at the University of Liverpool have demonstrated how a single-celled organism, living freely in the environment, could be a source of Salmonella transmission to animals and humans.
Researchers discover how infectious bacteria can switch species
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Oct 09, 2008 |
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Scientists from the Universities of Bath and Exeter have developed a rapid new way of checking for toxic genes in disease-causing bacteria which infect insects and humans. Their findings could in the future ...
Where man boldly goes, bacteria follow -- Are we contaminating space?
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May 29, 2008 |
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Life in outer space is an absolute certainty, and it is likely to be more familiar than we might think, according to an article in the May issue of Microbiology Today. Ever since the start of the space race we have sent m ...
Ameobas: Keeping it in the family
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Nov 25, 2008 |
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Starving "social amoebae" called Dictyostelium discoideum seek the support of "kin" when they form multi-cellular organisms made up of dead stalks and living spores, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and Ri ...
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