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Bacterial gut symbionts are tightly linked with the evolution of herbivory in ants

Biology / Plants & Animals

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Broadly speaking, ants have two different feeding strategies. A large proportion of all species are "carnivorous," meaning that they are generalist predators feeding on other small animals or scavenging on ...


Will copper keep us safe from the superbugs?

Medicine & Health / Research

created 10 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Three papers scheduled for publication in the January issue of the Journal of Hospital Infection, published by Elsevier, suggest that copper might have a role in the fight against healthcare-associated infections.


First comprehensive review of the state of Antarctica's climate

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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The first comprehensive review of the state of Antarctica's climate and its relationship to the global climate system is published this week by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). The review - Antarctic ...


Physician urges changes in diagnosis for sore throat in young adults

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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

New analysis from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) suggests that physicians need to re-think their diagnosis and treatment of sore throat, or pharyngitis, in adolescents and young adults to consider a more newly ...


Study describes new tool in the fight against autoimmune diseases, blood cancers

Medicine & Health / Research

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

A study led by a Scripps Research Institute scientist describes a new, highly pragmatic approach to the identification of molecules that prevent a specific type of immune cells from attacking their host. The findings add ...


Stroke and heart disease trigger revealed in new research

Stroke and heart disease trigger revealed in new research

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have identified the trigger that leads to the arteries becoming damaged in the disease atherosclerosis, which causes heart attacks and strokes, in research published today in the ...


Researchers discover biological basis of 'bacterial immune system'

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bacteria don’t have easy lives. In addition to mammalian immune systems that besiege the bugs, they have natural enemies called bacteriophages, viruses that kill half the bacteria on Earth every two days.


Scientists gain new understanding of disease-causing bacteria

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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

A team of scientists from The Forsyth Institute, the University of Connecticut Health Center, the CDC and the Wadsworth Center, have used state-of-the-art technology to elucidate the molecular architecture of Treponema pallidum, ...


Scientists get up close to bacteria's toxic pumps

Scientists get up close to bacteria's toxic pumps

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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

Scientists are building a clearer image of the machinery employed by bacteria to spread antibiotic resistance or cause diseases such as whooping cough, peptic stomach ulcers and legionnaires' disease.


It takes two to infect: Structural biologists shed light on mechanism of invasion protein

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Bacteria are quite creative when infecting the human organism. They invade cells, migrate through the body, avoid an immune response and misuse processes of the host cell for their own purposes. To this end every bacterium ...



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