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New test quickly ID's active TB in smear-negative patients

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Active tuberculosis can be rapidly identified in patients with negative sputum tests by a new method, according to European researchers. Active tuberculosis (TB) is the seventh-leading cause of death worldwide, and while ...


Hopkins-designed animal TB 'tracker' to speed drug and vaccine studies

Animal TB 'tracker' to speed drug and vaccine studies

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a novel way to monitor in real time the behavior of the TB bacterium in mouse lungs noninvasively pinpointing the exact location of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The ...


Scientists solve mystery about why HIV patients are more susceptible to TB infection

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

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

A team of Harvard scientists has taken an important first step toward the development of new treatments to help people with HIV battle Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) infection. In their report, appearing in the July 2009 p ...





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Biology of emergent Salmonella exposed

Biology of emergent Salmonella exposed

Biology / Biotechnology

created 12 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers have characterised a new multi drug resistant strain of Salmonella Typhimurium that is causing life-threatening disease in Africa.


Scientists gain new understanding of disease-causing bacteria

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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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, ...


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

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created 18 hours ago | 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 ...


First-ever blueprint of a minimal cell is more complex than expected

First-ever blueprint of a minimal cell is more complex than expected

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (19) | comments 4

What are the bare essentials of life, the indispensable ingredients required to produce a cell that can survive on its own? Can we describe the molecular anatomy of a cell, and understand how an entire organism ...


Implant-based cancer vaccine is first to eliminate tumors in mice

Implant-based cancer vaccine is first to eliminate tumors in mice

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (31) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- A cancer vaccine carried into the body on a carefully engineered, fingernail-sized implant is the first to successfully eliminate tumors in mammals, scientists report this week in the journal ...


Blocking biofilms: Alzheimer's research sheds light on potential treatments for urinary tract infections

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research into Alzheimer's disease seems an unlikely approach to yield a better way to fight urinary tract infections (UTIs), but that's what scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis ...


A sticky solution for identifying effective probiotics

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists have crystallised a protein that may help gut bacteria bind to the gastrointestinal tract. The protein could be used by probiotic producers to identify strains that are likely to be of real benefit to people.


Factors from common human bacteria may trigger multiple sclerosis

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Current research suggests that a common oral bacterium may exacerbate autoimmune disease. The related report by Nichols et al, "Unique Lipids from a Common Human Bacterium Represent a New Class of TLR2 Ligands Capable of ...


Insect resistance to Bt crops can be predicted, monitored and managed

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Since 1996, crop plants genetically modified to produce bacterial proteins that are toxic to certain insects, yet safe for people, have been planted on more than 200 million hectares worldwide. The popularity of these Bt ...


Biologists discover bacterial defense mechanism against aggressive oxygen

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bacteria possess an ingenious mechanism for preventing oxygen from harming the building blocks of the cell. This is the new finding of a team of biologists that includes Joris Messens of VIB, a life sciences research institute ...



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