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Researcher looks for answers about unique disease-resistant gene
Sep 14, 2009 |
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Virginia Tech faculty member Bingyu Zhao is investigating a disease-resistant gene in corn that prevents bacteria from invading distantly related plant species.
Jeepers creepers: Climate change threatens endangered honeycreepers
May 26, 2009 |
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As climate change causes temperatures to increase in Hawaii's mountains, deadly non-native bird diseases will likely also creep up the mountains, invading most of the last disease-free refuges for honeycreepers - a group ...
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Describing soils: Calibration tool for teaching soil rupture resistance
Jan 05, 2009 |
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A new calibration tool was recently developed to help students and soil scientists calibrate their thumb and forefinger for the correct amount of pressure.
Slowing evolution to stop drug resistance
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Infectious organisms that become resistant to antibiotics are a serious threat to human society. They are also a natural part of evolution. In a new project, researchers at the University of Gothenburg are attempting to find ...
New target to enhance anti-cancer drug sensitivity found in translation
Jun 12, 2008 |
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The development of resistance to anticancer chemotherapeutic agents remains a large problem. In some cases, such resistance is associated with altered control of a cellular process known as translation, which is central to ...
Researcher discovers corals resist disease
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Nov 21, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In recent years, tropical coral reefs have become drastically altered by disease epidemics. In a new study published by PLoS ONE, lead author Steven V. Vollmer, assistant professor of biology ...
Probing Question: How does antibiotic resistance happen?
Mar 05, 2009 |
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Before Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin in 1928, there were any number of unpleasant ways that bacteria could kill you. Countless women died from infection after childbirth, and a simple chest cold could turn into ...
Researchers overcome chemotherapy resistance in the lab
Jun 27, 2008 |
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Researchers from McGill University's Faculty of Medicine have discovered a compound that reduces resistance to chemotherapy agents used to treat cancer. Their results were published in the June issue of The Journal of Cl ...
Two-phase microbial resistance: the example of insects
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Nov 26, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In less than an hour, the immune system of the beetle Tenebrio molitor neutralizes most of the bacteria infecting its hemolymph (the equivalent to blood in vertebrates); this is rendered possible ...
Researcher studies drug-resistant bacteria in environment
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Mar 19, 2008 |
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Water is essential to life, but the water we drink to stay alive could also be making us sick. Lesley Warren, associate professor in the School of Geography & Earth Sciences, is studying the interaction between ...
Escherichia coli bacteria transferring between humans and mountain gorillas
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Nov 24, 2008 |
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A new study finds that mountain gorillas are at increased risk of acquiring gastrointestinal microbes, such as Escherichia Coli, from humans. The study, published in Conservation Biology, examines the exchange of digestive ...
New triple-threat weapon needed in war between man and microbe
Mar 24, 2008 |
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Mankind’s age-old battle against infectious diseases stands to rage on and on, unless scientists develop a new generation of triple-action antibiotics, according to an article scheduled for the March 28 issue ...
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