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MSU research may lead to new ways to control honeybee parasite

New research may lead to new ways to control honeybee parasite

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ground-breaking discoveries by Michigan State University researchers could help protect honeybees from deadly parasites that have devastated commercial colonies.


Breathlessness eased in patients with rare, often fatal disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Patients with a rare, deadly disease that mostly affects young women felt a dramatic reduction in breathlessness using an approved drug, according to study results published online today in The Journal of Heart and Lung Tr ...





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Deadly infection more common than realized

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Staphylococcus aureus causes far more serious infections than previously realised, with more than 3,000 Swedes affected every year, reveals a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.


Defects in T cells make West Nile virus more deadly in older adults

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- West Nile virus is more deadly in older adults due to defects in T cells, according to a study conducted by researchers from the UA College of Medicine.


Compound found to safely counter deadly bird flu

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

The specter of a drug-resistant form of the deadly H5N1 avian influenza is a nightmare to keep public health officials awake at night.


Study points way to development of drugs for deadly childhood leukemia

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study could point the way to the development of better drugs to fight a deadly form of childhood leukemia called mixed-lineage leukemia (MLL).


In cancer-ridden rats, loneliness can kill

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Socially isolated female rats develop more tumors -- and tumors of a more deadly type -- than rats living in a social group, according to researchers at Yale University and the University of Chicago.


Nuclear science to fight sleeping sickness

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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.


Biology of emergent Salmonella exposed

Biology of emergent Salmonella exposed

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers have characterised a new multi drug resistant strain of Salmonella Typhimurium that is causing life-threatening disease in Africa.


Netherlands reports mutant swine flu death

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dutch authorities said Thursday a patient infected by a mutant strain of the swine flu virus had died, but added that this was not the cause of death.


Good dentistry may have saved the dinosaurs

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Infectious diseases can be transmitted by sneezing, touching, or - for Tasmanian devils - biting each other on the face, a habit that may have driven the dinosaurs to extinction through the transmission of a protozoan parasite.


Scientists chase deadly MRSA bacteria with new models

Scientists chase deadly MRSA bacteria with new models

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ten years ago, Chicago hospitals were at ground zero when the deadly MRSA bacterium, till then confined to hospitals, learned some new tricks and spilled out into the community. This year, ...



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