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Gutsy germs succumb to baby broccoli (w/Videos)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A small, pilot study in 50 people in Japan suggests that eating two and a half ounces of broccoli sprouts daily for two months may confer some protection against a rampant stomach bug that ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Closing in on an ulcer- and cancer-causing bacterium

A research team led by scientists at the Chinese University of Hong Kong is releasing study results this week showing how a bacterium, Helicobacter pylori, that causes more than half of peptic ulcers worldw ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study discovers how cancer-causing bacterium spurs cell death

Researchers report they have figured out how the cancer-causing bacterium Helicobacter pylori attacks a cell's energy infrastructure, sparking a series of events in the cell that ultimately lead it to sel ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study of an ancient bacterial gene sheds light on movement of North American peoples

(PhysOrg.com) -- DNA from the stomach bacteria of a young man who died hundreds of years ago is shedding light on movement patterns of North American peoples and when they came in contact with Europeans.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 18, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study shows how flu infections may prevent asthma

In a paper that suggests a new strategy to prevent asthma, scientists at Children's Hospital Boston and their colleagues report that the influenza virus infection in young mice protected the mice as adults against the development ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Common stomach bacteria may fight off inflammatory bowel disease caused by Salmonella

Helicobacter pylori, a common stomach bacterium, reduced the severity of inflammation of the colon caused by Salmonella in mice, according to research from U-M Medical School scientists.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Cancer-causing bacterium targets tumor-suppressor protein

Researchers have discovered a mechanism by which Helicobacter pylori, the only known cancer-causing bacterium, disables a tumor suppressor protein in host cells.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New world Helicobacter pylori genome sequenced, dynamics of inflammation-related genes revealed

An international team of researchers led by scientists at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech have sequenced the genome of an Amerindian strain of the gastric bug Helicobacter pylori, confirming the ou ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Shape matters: The corkscrew twist of H. pylori enables it to 'set up shop' in the stomach

The bacterium Helicobacter pylori, which lives in the human stomach and is associated with ulcers and gastric cancer, is shaped like a corkscrew, or helix. For years researchers have hypothesized that the bacterium's twisty ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 27, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Gene regulation: Can we stomach it?

(PhysOrg.com) -- A breakthrough in decoding gene regulation of Helicobacter pylori has been made by an international research team led by Jörg Vogel of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Ber ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 23, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers find that common stomach pathogen may protect against tuberculosis

It's been implicated as the bacterium that causes ulcers and the majority of stomach cancers, but studies by researchers at Stanford University, UC Davis, and the University of Pittsburgh have found that Helicobacter py ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jan 20, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Team finds link between stomach-cancer bug and cancer-promoting factor

Researchers report that Helicobacter pylori, the only bacterium known to survive in the harsh environment of the human stomach, directly activates an enzyme in host cells that has been associated with severa ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 06, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bacterial protein mimics its host to disable a key enzyme (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bacteria use all sorts of cunning to trick hosts into doing their bidding. One con in their bag of tricks: the molecular mimic. In this ruse, bacteria or their agents look for all purposes like some native ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Important defense against stomach ulcer bacterium identified

A special protein in the lining of the stomach has been shown to be an important part of the body's defense against the stomach ulcer bacterium Helicobacter pylori in a new study from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the Univer ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Uncovering the secrets of ulcer-causing bacteria

A team of researchers from Boston University, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently made a discovery that changes a long held paradigm about how bacteria move through soft ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0