In their evolutionary battle for survival, viruses have developed strategies to spark and perpetuate infection. Once inside a host cell, the Ebola virus, for example, hijacks molecular pathways to replicate itself and eventually ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 3, 2023
0
67
Varroa destructor is an ectoparasitic mite that can cause European honey bee colonies to collapse by spreading Deformed wing virus as they feed. A study published in PLOS Pathogens by Zachary Lamas and colleagues at the USDA-ARS ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 19, 2023
0
79
Scientists have long been puzzled how the bubonic plague bacteria, Yersinia pestis, can cause both stable, enzootic disease among rodents, as well as sudden, lethal epizootic outbreaks that decimate the same rodent populations.
Ecology
Dec 15, 2022
0
20
Exeter scientists have provided hope in the fight to control Panama disease in bananas.
Agriculture
Oct 21, 2022
0
30
Viruses are tiny packets of destruction and there are more of them than any other biological entity on the planet.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 18, 2022
0
74
A new banana fungus is rapidly spreading across the globe. It hit Africa a decade ago, and the advance of the disease poses a threat to Africa's food security, a genetic study conducted by Wageningen University & Research ...
Ecology
Sep 23, 2022
0
53
Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have found one way SARS-CoV-2 manipulates the environment within human cells to prevent them raising a full antiviral response.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 26, 2022
0
228
Griffith University researchers have discovered a genetic switch in a common bacterium that helps defend itself against the human body's natural immune system.
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 2, 2022
0
70
Australia's largest wild bird sample collection has been established by experts around the nation, including a Deakin University researcher. Here's what it's showing about zoonotic disease.
Plants & Animals
Jul 8, 2022
1
14
An AIDS-like virus plaguing Australia's koala population is leaving them more vulnerable to chlamydia and other threatening health conditions, University of Queensland research has found.
Plants & Animals
May 25, 2022
0
15
