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Uncultured bacteria found in amniotic fluids of women who experience preterm births
Jan 05, 2009 |
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Researchers from Case Western Reserve University and Yale University have made a significant advancement in understanding the cause behind why some pregnant women suffer from inflammations in the inner womb without any signs ...
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New bacteria contaminate hairspray
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Mar 07, 2008 |
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Scientists in Japan have discovered a new species of bacteria that can live in hairspray, according to the results of a study published in the March issue of the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology.
Microbiologists find defense molecule that senses respiratory viruses
Aug 23, 2009 |
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A cellular molecule that not only can sense two common respiratory viruses but also can direct cells to mount a defense has been identified by microbiologists at The University of Texas Health Science Center ...
Breakthrough in the treatment of bacterial meningitis
May 13, 2009 |
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It can take just hours after the symptoms appear for someone to die from bacterial meningitis. Now, after years of research, experts at The University of Nottingham have finally discovered how the deadly meningococcal bacteria ...
Could science use the common cold to cure cystic fibrosis?
Jul 21, 2009 |
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In 1989 scientists identified the gene mutation that causes cystic fibrosis (CF), which led to the hope that CF lung disease could be 'cured' using gene therapy. The premise of gene therapy is that modified viruses or other ...
Chronic infection may add to developing-world deaths
Feb 12, 2009 |
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Worldwide, nearly 2 million people per year die from diarrhea, the vast majority of them in poor countries in Africa and Asia. The disease accounts for 18 percent of all deaths among children — and yet is almost always preventable ...
Drug fights cystic fibrosis
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Feb 05, 2008 |
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An experimental drug that has proven effective in treating muscular dystrophy also works for cystic fibrosis, according to researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).
New antibiotic beats superbugs at their own game
Jul 03, 2008 |
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The problem with antibiotics is that, eventually, bacteria outsmart them and become resistant. But by targeting the gene that confers such resistance, a new drug may be able to finally outwit them. Rockefeller ...
New strategy in tumor treatment
Jul 20, 2009 |
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A new strategy proposed by researchers at Dartmouth Medical School and Amtek, Hanover, NH may treat tumors that do not respond to conventional treatment. The study, which was published on May 29th in the open access, peer ...
Trojan horse strategy defeats drug-resistant bacteria
Mar 16, 2007 |
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A new antimicrobial approach can kill bacteria in laboratory experiments and eliminate life-threatening infections in mice by interfering with a key bacterial nutrient, according to research led by a University of Washington ...
Humans may give swine flu to pigs in new twist to pandemic
Jul 09, 2009 |
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The strain of influenza, A/H1N1, that is currently pandemic in humans has been shown to be infectious to pigs and to spread rapidly in a trial pig population.
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