News tagged with fungal allergy


Fungal pill could provide asthma relief for sufferers

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 29, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Up to 150,000 people suffering from severe asthma in the UK could benefit from taking antifungal medication already available from pharmacists, new research has found.





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Scientists get to the root of ancient case of sour grapes

Scientists get to the root of ancient case of sour grapes

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Cambridge have discovered that a lowly grape variety grown by peasants - but despised by noblemen - during the Middle Ages was the mother of many of today’s greatest grape varieties, ...


Transplant guide highlights daily infection risks from factors like pets and food

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Keeping pets healthy can reduce infection risks for people who have received solid organ transplants and veterinarians should be seen as an integral part of the healthcare team. That's just one of the key pieces of advice ...


Nanotech treatment gets boost with GSK licensing agreement

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- GlaxoSmithKline and Ann Arbor-based NanoBio Corporation announced today that they have signed an exclusive over-the-counter licensing agreement for NanoBio’s unique nanoemulsion treatment for cold sores in ...


UNSW students sequence genome of the Wollemi Pine

UNSW students sequence genome of the Wollemi Pine

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- UNSW students have sequenced the chloroplast genome of the ancient Wollemi Pine - a world first that could reveal how a "dinosaur" of the tree kingdom survived 200 million years of shifting ...


Sorter Detects and Removes Damaged Popcorn Kernels

Sorter Detects and Removes Damaged Popcorn Kernels

Biology / Other

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A device developed by an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist to sort wheat has been successfully used to detect and remove popcorn kernels that have been damaged by fungi.


Naturally skinny people have their own challenges

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Nancy Brueheim wishes she could break 100 pounds. Without working at it, Brueheim, who is 71 and stands 5-foot-2, fluctuates between 95 and 98 pounds.


Cold war - Fighting the threat of latent TB

Cold war - Fighting the threat of latent TB (w/ Podcast)

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are making breakthroughs in studying the latent form of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This work could revolutionise the treatment of TB.


Soldiers get mass swine flu shots before holidays (AP)

Soldiers get mass swine flu shots before holidays

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Thousands of Army recruits in training must line up at least once more before heading home for the holidays, this time for mass inoculations by the hundreds against swine flu.


Patenting melon juice? Not if India gets its way...

Technology / Business

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Fed up with foreign companies patenting traditional medicine from India, the country's top scientific body is compiling a giant database of everything from yoga positions to medicinal fruit juice.


 Killer catfish? Venomous species surprisingly common, study finds

Killer catfish? Venomous species surprisingly common, study finds

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Name all the venomous animals you can think of and you probably come up with snakes, spiders, bees, wasps and perhaps poisonous frogs. But catfish?



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