News tagged with airborne pathogens
Immune system quirk could lead to effective tularemia vaccine
Immunologists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and the have found a unique quirk in the way the immune system fends off bacteria called Francisella tularensis, ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Fighting TB might be a matter of 'flipping a switch' in immune response
Scientists are focusing on a new concept in fighting airborne pathogens by manipulating what is called the "switching time," the point at which a highly regulated immune response gives way to powerful cells that specialize ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 22, 2009 |
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Opinion: H5N1 flu is just as dangerous as feared, now requires action
The debate about the potential severity of an outbreak of airborne H5N1 influenza in humans needs to move on from speculation and focus instead on how we can safely continue H5N1 research and share the results among researchers, ...
Feb 23, 2012 |
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Scientists fight back in 'mutant flu' research row
Leading virologists on Wednesday warned of censorship after a US bioterror watchdog asked scientific journals to withhold details of lab work that created a mutant strain of killer flu.
Dec 21, 2011 |
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Study finds a weak spot on deadly ebolavirus
Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and the US Army's Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases have isolated and analyzed an antibody that neutralizes Sudan virus, a major species of ebolavirus ...
Nov 21, 2011 |
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Microbes travel through the air; it would be good to know how and where
Preliminary research on Fusarium, a group of fungi that includes devastating pathogens of plants and animals, shows how these microbes travel through the air. Researchers now believe that with improvements on thi ...
Sep 09, 2011 |
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Scientists man bioterror front lines post-9/11
(AP) -- Just hours after the first death in the 2001 anthrax attacks, Tom Slezak was told to gather his team, collect his gear and get on a plane.
Aug 26, 2011 |
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Grafting olfactory receptors onto nanotubes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Penn researchers have helped develop a nanotech device that combines carbon nanotubes with olfactory receptor proteins, the cell components in the nose that detect odors.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 26, 2011 |
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Scarlet fever pathogen draft genome sequence released
Scarlet fever has revealed unusual high infect rate in Hong Kong this year. So far, 466 children were infected and 2 of them dead. Scarlet fever is caused by Streptococcus pyogenes, a gram-positive pathogen that can be tra ...
Jun 22, 2011 |
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The role of bacteria in weather events
Researchers have discovered a high concentration of bacteria in the center of hailstones, suggesting that airborne microorganisms may be responsible for that and other weather events. They report their findings today at ...
May 24, 2011 |
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Viruses teach researchers how to protect corn from fungal infection
Smut fungi are agents of disease responsible for significant crop losses worldwide. Principal Investigator, Dr. Thomas Smith and Research Associate Member, Dr. Dilip Shah at The Donald Danforth Plant Science ...
Mar 09, 2011 |
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BSE pathogens can be transmitted by air
Airborne prions are also infectious and can induce mad cow disease or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disorder. This is the surprising conclusion of researchers at the University of Zurich, the University Hospital Zurich and the University ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 13, 2011 |
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