News tagged with trypanosomes
Researchers capture bacterial infection on film (w/ Video)
Jul 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have developed a new technique that allows them to make a movie of bacteria infecting their living host.
Breakthrough in treatment of sleeping sickness
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Apr 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Glasgow have made a significant breakthrough in the treatment of Sleeping Sickness, otherwise known as Human African Trypanosomasis.
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Research suggests core nuclear pore elements shared by all eukaryotes
Jul 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For perhaps 1.8 billion years after life first emerged on Earth, a sort of evolutionary writer’s block stalled the development of organisms more complicated than single cells. Then, a burst of experimental ...
Scientists develop tool to study a deadly parasite’s histone code
May 14, 2009 |
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(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
Apr 15, 2009 |
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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 ...
Scans show immune cells intercepting parasites
Dec 10, 2008 |
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Researchers may have identified one of the body's earliest responses to a group of parasites that causes illness in developing nations.
Researchers discover how human body fights off African parasite
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Sep 07, 2007 |
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Trypanosoma are a nasty class of single-celled parasites that cause serious, even fatal, diseases in human and animals. Two species cause sleeping sickness, a disease that threatens all of sub–Saharan Africa. There’s a catch ...
Scientists identify a gene that may suppress colorectal cancer
Mar 22, 2007 |
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In today’s online edition of Genome Research, a husband-and-wife research team from Thomas Jefferson University report the discovery of a gene that, when mutated, may suppress colorectal cancer. To conduct the study, the re ...
African parasite makes component of fat differently from all other organisms
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Aug 24, 2006 |
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Studying the parasite that causes African sleeping sickness, scientists at Johns Hopkins have discovered a previously unknown way of making fatty acids, a component of fat and the outer layer of all cells. The find unveils ...
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