Current thinking on how the Toxoplasma gondii parasite invades its host is incorrect, according to a study published today in Nature Methods describing a new technique to knock out genes. The findings coul ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Dec 23, 2012 5 / 5 (9) 25 |

Five species of parasitic wasps have been found associated with the vector of the Pine Wood Nematode. As this sanitary problem has been present for over a decade, new methods to control it are needed, besides ...

Biology - Ecology

Dec 20, 2012 not rated yet 0

Scientists have discovered new evidence about the evolution of viruses, in work that will change our understanding about the control of infectious diseases such as winter flu.

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Dec 13, 2012 5 / 5 (3) 0 |

Milk production is a major source of income for many farmers in Tanzania and therefore an important factor in combating poverty in the region. But the health and growth of the calves and the milk production ...

Biology - Other

Dec 13, 2012 not rated yet 0

Scientists have developed a new method for studying parasite numbers in the stomachs of individual seabirds in the wild. The technique enables the recording of video footage of worms inside seabird stomachs ...

Biology - Ecology

Dec 13, 2012 not rated yet 0

Long ago, when life on our planet was in its infancy, a group of small single-celled algae floating in the vast prehistoric ocean swam freely by beating whip-like tails, called flagella. It's a relatively unremarkable tale, ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Dec 11, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

A recent publication by Singh and colleagues in the Pertanika Journal of Tropical Agricultural Science explores a range of methods to combat microsporidiosis, a highly infective disease affecting silkworms - a ke ...

Biology - Ecology

Dec 05, 2012 not rated yet 0

For many years scientists thought that mosquitoes provided the disease organisms which they spread with a relatively free ride because the insects didn't have much in the way of natural defenses to fight ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Nov 29, 2012 4.4 / 5 (5) 3 |

Two years ago, a 71-year-old Indiana man impaled his hand on a branch after cutting down a dead crab apple tree, causing an infection that led University of Utah scientists to discover a new bacterium and ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Nov 15, 2012 5 / 5 (7) 1 |

Scientists at The University of Nottingham have discovered that a rare parasitic fungus that lives on hibernating caterpillars in Tibet could have a role to play in anti-inflammatory drugs for conditions such as asthma.

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Nov 14, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

Sheep in the Norwegian counties of Rogaland and Hordaland have an increased risk of hosting gastrointestinal parasites which cannot be efficiently treated with benzimidazole – the most frequently used deworming ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Nov 14, 2012 not rated yet 0

When humans have parasites, the organisms live in our bodies, co-opt our resources and cause disease. However, it turns out that parasites themselves can have their own co-habitants.

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Nov 07, 2012 4.3 / 5 (3) 0 |

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have determined a new mechanism by which the mosquitoes' immune system can respond with specificity to infections with various pathogens, ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Oct 18, 2012 not rated yet 1 |

(Phys.org)—A team of researchers working out of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France has discovered a new giant virus living in an amoeba found in an eye patient's contact lens fluid. ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Oct 16, 2012 5 / 5 (12) 6 |

To solve the acute, global problem of securing food resources for a continuously growing population, we must work constantly to increase the sustainability and effectiveness of modern agricultural techniques. ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Oct 16, 2012 not rated yet 0