News tagged with respiratory pathogen

New clues to help patients with immune deficiency disease

Infection researchers at Umea University have uncovered a new disease mechanism in patients with Chronic Granulomatous Disease (CGD) in an international clinical collaboration with the Children's Hospital in Zurich. Their ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers discover new TB pathogen

Kathleen Alexander, associate professor of wildlife in Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and Environment, has discovered a novel tuberculosis (TB) species in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis comple ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Sep 30, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Small molecules have big impact for TB bacteria

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) possesses extraordinary survival ability by masking itself from the host immune system and persisting for decades inside the host. Speaking at the Society for General Microbiology's spring ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 31, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New insight into an old reaction: Adenylylation regulates cell signaling

A new study reveals the importance of adenylylation in the regulation of cell signaling from bacteria to higher organisms. The research, published by Cell Press in the April 10th issue of the journal Molecular Cell, provid ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0