News tagged with antagonism
Fungus-on-Fungus Fight Could Benefit Chickpeas
Dec 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The fungus Ascochyta rabiei threatens chickpea crops the world over. But now this blight-causing pathogen could meet its match in Aureobasidium pullulans, a rival fungus that Agricultural ...
Study reveals conflict between doctors, midwives over homebirth
May 11, 2009 |
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Two Oregon State University researchers have uncovered a pattern of distrust - and sometimes outright antagonism - among physicians at hospitals and midwives who are transporting their home-birth clients to the hospital because ...
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Fruit fly neuron can reprogram itself after injury
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 06, 2009 |
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Studies with fruit flies have shown that the specialized nerve cells called neurons can rebuild themselves after injury.
Study reveals why certain drug combinations backfire
Nov 13, 2009 |
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Combination drug therapy has become a staple for treating many infections. For instance, doctors treat extensively drug resistant forms of tuberculosis with one drug that breaks down the pathogen's protective barriers and ...
Most Americans dislike behavioral advertising: survey
Sep 30, 2009 |
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Privacy advocates have long criticized behavioral advertising and a new survey suggests that contrary to the claims of marketers, most Americans don't like it either.
A potential therapeutic agent for hepatic fibrosis
Aug 25, 2009 |
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Accumulating evidence suggests that connective tissue growth factor (CCN2) plays a central role in fibrotic conditions in many organ systems. Fibrosis is a scarring condition that is characterized by excessive collagen production ...
Kenya's national parks not free from wildlife declines
Jul 08, 2009 |
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Long-term declines of elephants, giraffe, impala and other animals in Kenya are occurring at the same rates within the country's national parks as outside of these protected areas, according to a study released ...
How mitochondria get their membranes bent
Jun 24, 2009 |
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Underneath their smooth surface mitochondria harbor an elaborately folded inner membrane. It holds a multitude of bottleneck like invaginations, which expand into elongated cavities. Now researchers have identified two proteins ...
Wikipedia blocks Scientology from altering entries
May 30, 2009 |
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Wikipedia has blocked the Church of Scientology from editing entries at the communally-crafted online encyclopedia due to an unrelenting battle over the group's image.
HIV dearms protective protein in cells
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Apr 15, 2009 |
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The AIDS-causing HIV specifically counteracts the mechanisms of human cells that protect these against viral infections - a special viral protein marks protective cellular proteins for their rapid destruction and thus diminishes ...
How probiotics can prevent disease
Apr 02, 2009 |
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Using probiotics successfully against a number of animal diseases has helped scientists from University College Cork, Ireland to understand some of the ways in which they work, which could lead to them using probiotics to ...
Do antidepressants enhance immune function?
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May 08, 2008 |
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Infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which leads to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), is an epidemic of global concern. According to the most recent estimates, released in November 2007, by the Joint ...
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