News tagged with infectious microorganisms
Scientists develope new agents to battle MRSA
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Experts from Queen's University Belfast have developed new agents to fight MRSA and other hospital-acquired infections that are resistant to antibiotics. The fluids are a class of ionic liquids that not only kill colonies ...
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Killer Kevlar -- clothing that shields from germs
Jul 21, 2008 |
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Protective clothing worn by firemen and other emergency workers may soon get a germ-fighting upgrade. Researchers in South Dakota report progress toward the first Kevlar fabrics that can kill a wide range ...
New insight into selective binding properties of infectious HIV
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Dec 15, 2009 |
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Free infectious HIV-1 is widely thought to be the major form of the virus in the blood of infected persons. U.S. Military HIV Research Program (MHRP) researchers, however, have demonstrated that essentially all of the infectious ...
Toward a new generation of vaccines for malaria and other diseases
Mar 24, 2008 |
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Researchers in Colombia, South America, describe a new strategy for designing the next generation of synthetic vaccines that could lead to more effective treatments for fighting malaria, tuberculosis, AIDS and other infectious ...
Infectious, test tube-produced prions can jump the 'species barrier'
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Sep 04, 2008 |
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Researchers have shown that they can create entirely new strains of infectious proteins known as prions in the laboratory by simply mixing infectious prions from one species with the normal prion proteins of another species. ...
Insect gut detects unhealthy meal
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Dec 21, 2007 |
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Plant leaves and surfaces are teeming with microbial life, yet the insects that feed on plants lack adaptive immune systems to fend off any intruding microorganisms they eat along with their greens. Now research published ...
Syphilis survey reveals need for accurate testing for early infection
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Although syphilis is one of the oldest known diseases, most health professionals do not have access to the tests necessary to reliably diagnose it in its earliest and most infectious stage. A recent survey of infectious ...
Researchers hack final part of the immune system code
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Jul 10, 2008 |
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A group of researchers from the University of Copenhagen and the Biocentre at the Technical University of Denmark have managed to decipher the final part of the immune system’s key codes.
Microscopic passengers to hitch ride on space shuttle
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 24, 2006 |
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When space shuttle Atlantis rockets into space later this week, it will take along three kinds of microbes so scientists can study how their genetic responses and their ability to cause disease change.
Cigarettes harbor many pathogenic bacteria: Study
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Cigarettes are "widely contaminated" with bacteria, including some known to cause disease in people, concludes a new international study conducted by a University of Maryland environmental health researcher ...
Microscopic 'astronauts' to go back in orbit
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 10, 2008 |
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When space shuttle Endeavor blasts off on March 11, some tiny ‘astronauts’ will piggyback onboard an experimental payload from Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute.
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