E. coli: The ideal transport for next-gen vaccines?
Most people recoil at the thought of ingesting E. coli. But what if the headline-grabbing bacteria could be used to fight disease?
View ArticleCoal dust kills 23,000 per year in EU: report
Lung-penetrating dust from coal-fired power plants in the European Union claims some 23,000 lives a year and racks up tens of billions of euros in health costs, an NGO report said Tuesday.
View ArticleSignaling molecules can make neuronal extensions retract at a distance
Eph receptors and their partner proteins, the ephrins, are vital for intercellular communication. In the developing brain, they guide young neurons to the right partner cells by repulsion. They also...
View ArticleBugs' flair for foraging inspires quest for new smart therapies
Fresh insight into how ocean bacteria search for food could aid the development of a new generation of bacterial therapies programmed to treat disease.
View ArticleStanford research cites child mortality as major factor in lifespan...
Around the world people have been living longer, with life expectancy pushing past 70 in many countries. However, people aren't simply living longer on average: Inequality among individuals in the...
View ArticleAncient feces provides earliest evidence of infectious disease being carried...
An ancient latrine near a desert in north-western China has revealed the first archaeological evidence that travellers along the Silk Road were responsible for the spread of infectious diseases along...
View ArticleProtein insights to help find heart disease cure
Research led by The Australian National University (ANU) has uncovered new insights into how the human genome gets through the daily grind with the help of RNA-binding proteins, in a discovery which...
View ArticleResearchers discover a way that animals keep their cells identical
Cancers arise in skin, muscle, liver or other types of tissue when one cell becomes different from its neighbors. Although biologists have learned a lot about how tissues form during development, very...
View ArticleFluorescent 3-D imaging technique tracks disease models without surgery
A new rapid 3-D imaging system offers a non-invasive approach to accurately monitoring tumour development in adult zebrafish.
View ArticleStudy pushes back the origin of HIV-related retroviruses to 60 million years ago
Lentiviruses cause a variety of chronic diseases in mammals —- ranging from the most notorious example of HIV/AIDS in humans to various neurological disorders in primates——yet little is known of their...
View ArticleNew enzyme-mapping advance could help drug development
Scientists at MIT and the University of São Paulo in Brazil have identified the structure of an enzyme that could be a good target for drugs combatting three diseases common in the developing world.
View ArticleStudying blood flow dynamics to identify the heart of vessel failure
When plaque, fatty deposits that build up on the inside of arteries, rupture and block blood flow, the results can be deadly. Such hardening of the arteries, also called atherosclerosis, typically...
View ArticleLab team spins ginger into nanoparticles to heal inflammatory bowel disease
A recent study by researchers at the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center took them to a not-so-likely destination: local farmers markets. They went in search of fresh ginger root.
View ArticleSick animals limit disease transmission by isolating themselves from their peers
Sick wild house mice spend time away from their social groups, leading to a decrease in their potential for disease transmission according to a new study by evolutionary biologists from the University...
View ArticleUsing light to control genome editing
The genome-editing system known as CRISPR allows scientists to delete or replace any target gene in a living cell. MIT researchers have now added an extra layer of control over when and where this gene...
View ArticleHow Lyme disease bacteria spread through the body
Researchers have developed a live-cell-imaging-based system that provides molecular and biomechanical insights into how Lyme disease bacteria latch onto and move along the inside surface of blood...
View ArticleLyme bacteria mark out cell division locations for their progeny
Among bacteria, the spirochetes are characterized by their spiral shape and remarkable length—as much 50 times longer than most other bacteria. This can make cell elongation and division a laborious...
View ArticleResearchers develop method to speed up detection of infectious diseases, cancer
A team of UCLA researchers has found a way to speed and simplify the detection of proteins in blood and plasma opening up the potential for diagnosing the early presence of infectious diseases or...
View ArticlePurest yet liver-like cells generated from induced pluripotent stem cells
A research team including developmental biologist Stephen A. Duncan, D. Phil., SmartState Chair of Regenerative Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), has found a better way to...
View ArticleNovel method enables absolute quantification of mitochondrial metabolites
Whitehead Institute scientists have developed a method to quickly isolate and systematically measure metabolite concentrations within the cellular organelles known as mitochondria, often referred to as...
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