News tagged with molecular parasitology


Scientists develop tool to study a deadly parasite’s histone code

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the Japanese art of paper folding, a series of folds can make the same sheet of paper into a ballerina or baby elephant. But try unfolding the baby elephant and making it into a ballerina. It’s like trying ...


Parasite breaks its own DNA to avoid detection

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

The parasite Trypanosoma brucei, which causes African sleeping sickness, is like a thief donning a disguise. Every time the host's immune cells get close to destroying the parasite, it escapes detection by rearranging its DN ...





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A researcher identifies the parasites responsible for Chagas and Leishmaniasis epidemics

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jun 04, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Parasites must be correctly identified before the correct treatment is introduced. To do so, we need a fast and cheap technique that enables us to obtain the necessary results in our studies, especially in under developed ...


New finding about the bane of parents' lives -- head lice

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created Jan 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Head lice are a challenge for parents of primary-school aged children all around the world, including Australia.


Portuguese scientists show Schistosoma haematobium direct link to tumours

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

Schistosoma haematobium (S. haematobium) is a parasitic flatworm that infects millions of people, mostly in the developing world, and is associated with high incidence of bladder cancer although why is not clear. Now, however, ...


Borrelia Species

Tiny details in three dimensions

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created Feb 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

They are borne by ticks and can cause acute and chronic symptoms in joints, muscles and the nervous system - the bacteria that cause Lyme borreliosis, which 80,000 people in Germany contract every year. Heidelberg ...


Putting a name to the fluke

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(Physorg.com) -- In a world first, a UQ researcher has developed a non-invasive screening method for potentially fatal liver and intestinal flukes plaguing the lives of an estimated 9 million people throughout southeast Asia.


McGill researcher on a quest to cure disfiguring parasitic disease

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 01, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Eating a meal in a restaurant is one of those trivial, everyday activities we take for granted in the developed world. For Canadian aid worker Louisette Pouliot, however, the simple act of grabbing a quick bite at an outdoor ...


Researchers create first targeted knockout rats using zinc finger nuclease technology

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 6

Scientists from The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Sangamo Biosciences, Inc., Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, Open Monoclonal Technology, Inc. (OMT) and INSERM today announced the creation of the first genetically ...


RNA on the move

RNA on the move

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In the fruit fly Drosophila, oskar mRNA, which is involved in defining the animal’s body axes, is produced in the nuclei of nurse cells neighbouring the oocyte, and must be transported to the oocyte and along ...


Toshiba develops molecular photoresist technology for EUV lithography

Toshiba develops molecular photoresist technology for EUV lithography

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (12) | comments 1

Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has developed a high resolution photoresist (photo-sensitive film) essential for future application of EUV (extreme ultraviolet) lithography in semiconductor fabrication, ...


Researchers to develop probes to study cellular GPS

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An international group of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, Goettingen Medical School in Germany and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom have received a Human Frontiers Science Program (HFSP) grant ...



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