Public Release: 22-Apr-2015 Researchers discover never-before-seen tick-borne disease Illness may be ‘substantial health threat’ to humans in many parts of the world University of Maryland School of Medicine Tick-borne diseases are a major public health problem around the world. Ticks… Read More ›
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Researchers produce first atlas of airborne microbes across United States
Public Release: 20-Apr-2015 CU-Boulder, North Carolina State University team up on novel study University of Colorado at Boulder A University of Colorado Boulder and North Carolina State University-led team has produced the first atlas of airborne microbes across the continental… Read More ›
Bacterial ‘memory’ targets invading viruses
Public Release: 16-Apr-2015 Tel Aviv University researchers uncover mechanism that defends bacteria from an autoimmune attack American Friends of Tel Aviv University One of the immune system’s most critical challenges is to differentiate between itself and foreign invaders — and… Read More ›
The Darker Bioweapons of the future
Editors Note: ( Ralph Turchiano) Archived Unclassified 3 November 2003 A panel of life science experts convened for the Strategic Assessments Group by the National Academy of Sciences concluded that advances in biotechnology, coupled with the difficulty in detecting nefarious… Read More ›
A multi-faceted poison
Public Release: 1-Apr-2015 Food poisoning: New detection method for bacterial toxin Technische Universitaet Muenchen IMAGE: Bacillus cereus is shown under the microscope. The white inclusions in the rod-shaped bacteria are spores capable of withstanding high temperatures. Credit: H. Seiler/TUM The… Read More ›
How a deadly fungus evades the immune system
Public Release: 31-Mar-2015 University of Toronto New research from the University of Toronto has scientists re-thinking how a lethal fungus grows and kills immune cells. The study hints at a new approach to therapy for Candida albicans, one of the… Read More ›
The ‘intraterrestrials’: New viruses discovered in ocean depths
Public Release: 31-Mar-2015 Viruses infect methane-eating archaea beneath the seafloor National Science Foundation The intraterrestrials, they might be called. Strange creatures live in the deep sea, but few are odder than the viruses that inhabit deep ocean methane seeps and… Read More ›
Genetic mutation helps explain why, in rare cases, flu can kill
Public Release: 26-Mar-2015 Rockefeller University Nobody likes getting the flu, but for some people, fluids and rest aren’t enough. A small number of children who catch the influenza virus fall so ill they end up in the hospital — perhaps… Read More ›
Tiny bio-robot is a germ suited-up with graphene quantum dots
Public Release: 24-Mar-2015 University of Illinois at Chicago Caption Graphene quantum dots deposited on a sporating bacteria produces a graphene coated spore. Upon attachment of electrodes across the cell, a bio-electronic device is produced that is highly sensitive to humidity…. Read More ›
How to modify Industrial bacteria to be immune against viral attack.
Public Release: 12-Mar-2015 Nature’s inbuilt immune defense could protect industrial bacteria from viruses University of Exeter Findings from a new study that set out to investigate the evolution of immune defences could boost the development of industrial bacteria that are… Read More ›
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