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Deadly bird parasite evolves at exceptionally fast rate

A new study of a devastating bird disease that spread from poultry to house finches in the mid-1990s reveals that the bacteria responsible for the disease evolves at an exceptionally fast rate. What's more, ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Behavior of parent organisms may influence genes passed on to next generation

Timing is everything, and if there was ever a scientist whose legacy was tarnished by bad timing, it was Jean Baptiste Lamarck. The French naturalist lived from 1744 to 1829 - and published his own evolutionary theory decades ...

Biology / Evolution

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The search for life's stirrings

Scientists studying how life arose on Earth are stumped by several key steps in that eventual process, but a Harvard scientist studying the earliest cells says that seemingly intractable problems in this field ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

With single laser pulses on single molecules

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at MPQ (Max Planck Institute) succeed in resolving the internal dynamics of individual molecules using UV femtosecond laser pulses.

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Why bad immunity genes survive: Study implicates arms race between genes and germs

University of Utah biologists found new evidence why mice, people and other vertebrate animals carry thousands of varieties of genes to make immune-system proteins named MHCs – even though some of those ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Using plants to silence insect genes in a high-throughput manner

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany, are now using a procedure which brings forward ecological research on insects: They study gene functions in moth larvae by manipulating ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Protein study gives fresh impetus in fight against superbugs

Scientists have shed new light on the way superbugs such as MRSA are able to become resistant to treatment with antibiotics.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Protein discovery could lead to new HIV drugs

(Medical Xpress) -- A team of researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health recently discovered a new protein that enables HIV to destroy human cells. The finding provides scientists with ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study offers new information for flu fight

Influenza virus can rapidly evolve from one form to another, complicating the effectiveness of vaccines and anti-viral drugs used to treat it. By first understanding the complex host cell pathways that the flu uses for replication, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers show how new viruses evolve, and in some cases, become deadly

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the current issue of Science, researchers at Michigan State University demonstrate how a new virus evolves, which sheds light on how easy it can be for diseases to gain dangerous mutati ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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