News tagged with mammalian host

New study provides a better understanding of how mosquitoes find a host

The potentially deadly yellow-fever-transmitting Aedes aegypti mosquito detects the specific chemical structure of a compound called octenol as one way to find a mammalian host for a blood meal, Agricultural Research Servic ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Flies process attractive and deterrent odors in different brain areas

In collaboration with colleagues from Portugal and Spain, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, have developed an apparatus that automatically applies odors to an airstream, ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Leeches are DNA bloodhounds in the jungle

Copenhagen Zoo and University of Copenhagen have in collaboration developed a new and revolutionary, yet simple and cheap, method for tracking mammals in the rainforests of Southeast Asia. They collect leeches from tropical ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers discover cellular system for detecting and responding to poisons and pathogens

Two Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)-based research teams, along with a group from the University of California at San Diego, have discovered that animals have a previously unknown system for detecting and responding ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Investigators predict, confirm how E. coli bacteria hijack cells' directional mechanism

Working in the emerging field of systems biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers mathematically predicted how bacteria that cause food poisoning hijack a cell's sense of direction and then confirmed those predictions ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Flipping a light switch in the cell: Quantum dots used for targeted neural activation

By harnessing quantum dots—tiny light-emitting semiconductor particles a few billionths of a meter across—researchers at the University of Washington (UW) have developed a new and vastly more targeted ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover a compound that controls Listeria

In a year when cantaloupe tainted with the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes killed 30 people, the discovery of a compound that controls this deadly bacteria -- and possibly others -- is great news.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop CAD-Type tools for engineering RNA control systems

The computer assisted design (CAD) tools that made it possible to fabricate integrated circuits with millions of transistors may soon be coming to the biological sciences. Researchers at the Joint BioEnergy ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Sabre-toothed squirrel': First known mammalian skull from Late Cretaceous discovered in South America

Paleontologist Guillermo Rougier, Ph.D., professor of anatomical sciences and neurobiology at the University of Louisville, and his team have reported their discovery of two skulls from the first known mammal ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists find stem cell reprogramming technique is safer than previously thought

Stem cells made by reprogramming patients' own cells might one day be used as therapies for a host of diseases, but scientists have feared that dangerous mutations within these cells might be caused by current reprogramming ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Invasion of genomic parasites triggered modern mammalian pregnancy

Genetic parasites invaded the mammalian genome more than 100 million years ago and dramatically changed the way mammals reproduce -- transforming the uterus in the ancestors of humans and other mammals from the production ...

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created Sep 25, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 9 | with audio podcast


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