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A reductionist approach to HIV research

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A major obstacle to HIV research is the virus's exquisite specialisation for its human host - meaning that scientists' traditional tools, like the humble lab mouse, can deliver only limited information. Now, a team of researchers ...





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Knockouts in human cells point to pathogenic targets

Knockouts in human cells point to pathogenic targets

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Whitehead researchers have developed a new approach for genetics in human cells and used this technique to identify specific genes and proteins required for pathogens.


Foodborne Staph Toxin Pinpointed by New Assay

Foodborne Staph Toxin Pinpointed by New Assay

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Most people need about two days to recover from being sickened by foods contaminated with what's known as staphylococcal enterotoxin A, or "SEA." Produced by Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, ...


Cost of child vaccines fall, more kids saved

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Babies squirmed and wailed as needles plunged into their chubby thighs at a public health clinic on the outskirts of Hanoi on Friday. Like little ones everywhere, the reaction to the sting was never pretty.


No Asian carp found yet in Ill. fish kill (AP)

No Asian carp found yet in Ill. fish kill

Biology / Ecology

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

(AP) -- No Asian carp have been spotted so far in a Chicago canal during a massive fish kill aimed at trying to keep the giant fish out of the Great Lakes.


Experts think toxic algae harming endangered fish

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Scientists say they think toxins from a blue-green algae plaguing lakes and rivers around the West are harming an endangered fish in the Klamath Basin, adding another obstacle to restoring species that have forced ...


Insect resistance to Bt crops can be predicted, monitored and managed

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Since 1996, crop plants genetically modified to produce bacterial proteins that are toxic to certain insects, yet safe for people, have been planted on more than 200 million hectares worldwide. The popularity of these Bt ...


Parents: Be mindful of hazardous holiday ornaments

Parents: Be mindful of hazardous holiday ornaments

Medicine & Health / Health

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

A new study from Children's Hospital Boston's Division of Emergency Medicine has found that holiday decorations, particularly glass ornaments, are one more safety hazard parents must consider during the season. ...


Glial cells can cross from the central to the peripheral nervous system (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Glial cells, which help neurons communicate with each other, can leave the central nervous system and cross into the peripheral nervous system to compensate for missing cells, according to new research in the Dec. 2 issue ...


Federal agencies not taking chances to keep carp from invading Great Lakes

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A group of federal agencies criticized in the past for failing to move quickly to stop Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes announced Friday that they're taking every precaution to keep them out, even poisoning thousands ...


White, but not pure

White, but not pure

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Even the snow on Aconcagua Mountain in the Andes is polluted with PCBs. An international team of researchers detected low concentrations of these toxic, carcinogenic chlorine compounds in samples taken from ...



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