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From mild-mannered to killer plague: New study explains plague's rapid evolution

In the evolutionary blink of an eye, a bacterium that causes mild stomach irritation evolved into a deadly assassin responsible for the most devastating pandemics in human history. How did the mild-mannered Yersinia pseudotuberculosis become ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

500 years ago, yeast's epic journey gave rise to lager beer

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the 15th century, when Europeans first began moving people and goods across the Atlantic, a microscopic stowaway somehow made its way to the caves and monasteries of Bavaria.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Chip-in-a-pill may be approved in 2012

(PhysOrg.com) -- Giant Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis AG, based in Basel, is developing a pill containing an embedded microchip, which it hopes to submit for regulatory approval in Europe within 18 ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 10, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 10 | with audio podcast report

Scientists Discover Hunger's Timekeeper

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Columbia and Rockefeller Universities have identified cells in the stomach that regulate the release of a hormone associated with appetite. The group is the first to show that ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Spider pill to seek out diseases

(PhysOrg.com) -- A remotely controlled 'spider pill' with eight moving legs and a miniature camera may become the next tool of choice in diagnosing cancers of the stomach and colon.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0 weblog

The NutriSmart system would put RFIDs into your food for enhanced information

(PhysOrg.com) -- RFID, short for Radio Frequency ID, tags have found their way into a wide variety of applications. These pellets, which are often roughly the same size as a grain of rice, can help us to be ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 31, 2011 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (4) | comments 10 | with audio podcast weblog

Vietnam 'cancer-cure' horn habit threat to world rhinos

For desperate Vietnamese cancer patients ground rhinoceros horn is seen as an elixir of life -- a medically unproven and illegal obsession that threatens the very survival of the world's wild rhinos.

Biology / Ecology

created May 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 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

Dog, nappy and football found in Aussie croc

Rangers who shot a saltwater crocodile that was terrorising pets in northern Australia found a dog, a pair of shorts, a football and a nappy in its stomach, according to a local report.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

New fusion gene plays role in some stomach cancers

A newly discovered hybrid gene appears to play a direct role in some stomach cancers, according to an international team of scientists led by researchers at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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

How diarrheal bacteria cause some colon cancers revealed in mouse studies

Johns Hopkins scientists say they have figured out how bacteria that cause diarrhea may also be the culprit in some colon cancers. The investigators say that strains of the common Bacteroides fragilis (ETBF) ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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