News tagged with pathogenic fungi


Entomologists seek fungus to blunt mosquitoes' sense of smell

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Sick people often lose their sense of smell and their appetite. If this happened to mosquitoes, they would not be able to feed on humans and spread malaria. A team of Penn State entomologists is looking for an insect disease ...





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Researchers discover new ways to treat chronic infections

Researchers discover new ways to treat chronic infections

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York, have identified three key regulators required for the formation and development of biofilms. The discovery could lead to new ways of treating ...


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.


Research reveals further progress toward AIDS vaccine

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PHILADELPHIA) Researchers from Thomas Jefferson University are one step closer to developing a vaccine against the AIDS disease.


Introns: A mystery renewed

Introns: A mystery renewed

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

The sequences of nonsense DNA that interrupt genes could be far more important to the evolution of genomes than previously thought, according to a recent Science report by Indiana University Bloomington and ...


Climate change turns up heat on mushrooms

Climate change turns up heat on mushrooms

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered that spring-fruiting fungi, including the morel and St George’s mushroom are fruiting nearly three weeks earlier than they did 50 years ago.


Low-density lipoprotein receptor reduces damage in Alzheimer's brain

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) has received a lot of attention because of its connection with coronary heart disease and atherosclerosis, but now it appears as if it may have a beneficial influence in degenerative ...


Toward a fast, accurate urine test for pneumonia

Fast, accurate urine test for pneumonia possible, study finds

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Doctors may soon be able to quickly and accurately diagnose the cause of pneumonia-like symptoms by examining the chemicals found in a patient's urine, suggests a new study led by UC Davis biochemist Carolyn ...


H1N1 influenza adopted novel strategy to move from birds to humans

H1N1 influenza adopted novel strategy to move from birds to humans

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The 2009 H1N1 influenza virus used a new strategy to cross from birds into humans, a warning that it has more than one trick up its sleeve to jump the species barrier and become virulent.


Computer model reveals where food pathogens grow

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An outbreak of food-related illness, such as E. coli-tainted spinach, often leaves food safety experts scratching their heads over the source of the contamination.


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Papillomavirus silences innate immune response

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

In the 1980s, Harald zur Hausen and his co-workers discovered that specific types of human papillomavirus (HPV) cause cervical cancer. Scientists soon found out how these pathogens cause cells to degenerate. ...



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