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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 ...
Aug 29, 2011 |
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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.
Aug 22, 2011 |
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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
Nov 10, 2010 |
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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
Oct 16, 2009 |
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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
Aug 28, 2009 |
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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 ...
Apr 06, 2009 |
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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 ...
Dec 07, 2011 |
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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
May 31, 2011 |
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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.
Apr 06, 2011 |
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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.
Feb 18, 2011 |
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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.
Aug 02, 2010 |
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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 ...
Jun 16, 2010 |
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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 ...
May 27, 2010 |
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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 ...
Jan 06, 2010 |
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Evidence lacking for special diets in autism
(AP) -- An expert panel says there's no rigorous evidence that digestive problems are more common in children with autism compared to other children, or that special diets work, contrary to claims by celebrities and vaccine ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 04, 2010 |
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