Malaria parasites know good times from bad and plan their offspring accordingly, scientists have found, in a development that could inform new treatments.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 15, 2018
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Cancer-causing human papillomaviruses (HPVs) diverged from their most recent common ancestors approximately half a million years ago, roughly coinciding with the timing of the split between archaic Neanderthals and modern ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 1, 2018
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Carnegie Mellon University researchers have identified a molecule that plays a key role in bacterial communication and infection. Their findings add a new word to pneumococcus' molecular dictionary and may lead to novel ways ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 11, 2018
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In 2016, synthetic biologists reconstructed a possibly extinct disease, known as horsepox, using mail-order DNA for around $100,000. The experiment was strictly for research purposes, and the disease itself is harmless to ...
Biotechnology
Oct 5, 2018
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The ability to acquire manganese during infection is essential for the virulence of Enterococcus faecalis in animals, according to a study published September 20 in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens by José Lemos of ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 20, 2018
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What can scientists learn about human neurodegenerative disease from a major soybean pest? It's not a trick question; the answer lies in the soybean cyst nematode, one of two classes of microscopic roundworms known to lose ...
Biotechnology
Aug 16, 2018
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The discovery of microRNAs encoded by papillomaviruses supports the important role of these small molecules in persistent infection, according to a study published July 26 in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens. Study ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 26, 2018
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UBC researchers have matched small proteins, called peptides, with antibiotics so they can work together to combat hard-to-treat infections that don't respond well to drugs on their own.
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 21, 2018
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Retroviruses, a broad category of viruses that infect humans and other vertebrates, have much greater diversity than previously thought, according to new research presented in PLOS Pathogens by Xiaoyu Xu and colleagues at ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 14, 2018
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When the malaria-causing Plasmodium parasite first slips into the human bloodstream, injected by the bite of an infected mosquito, it does not immediately target red blood cells.
Cell & Microbiology
May 22, 2018
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