Hidden koala blood parasites offer new clue for their illness
A new test for detecting multiple parasites in koalas has been developed by a Perth veterinarian and post-doctoral scientist.
A new test for detecting multiple parasites in koalas has been developed by a Perth veterinarian and post-doctoral scientist.
Plants & Animals
Dec 6, 2018
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With the continuing advance of technology, radio tracking devices keep getting smaller and smaller. And that's bad news for stealthy insects like kissing bugs.
Ecology
Jul 9, 2018
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Yaser Hashem's team at the Laboratoire Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN at CNRS's has discovered a new potential therapeutic target - located in the ribosome - to combat trypanosomes parasites. Using cryo-electron microscopy, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 26, 2017
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Solitary weasel-like animals called tayra might look pretty harmless, but some may actually be incubators for a parasite that causes Chagas disease, a chronic, debilitating condition that is spread by insects called kissing ...
Ecology
Sep 19, 2017
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Insects transmit many of the world's most infectious diseases, but there has been a decline in the expertise needed to recognize species of insects most likely to transmit illness to people.
Plants & Animals
Sep 24, 2014
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Entomologist Christiane Weirauch is passionate about studying a group of bugs that have a formidable name: assassin bugs. A professor of entomology at the University of California, Riverside, she travels worldwide in search ...
Ecology
Sep 9, 2014
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A safer and more effective treatment for 10 million people in developing countries who suffer from infections caused by trypanosome parasites could become a reality thanks to new research from Queen Mary, University of London ...
Biochemistry
Apr 15, 2011
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On March 14, the Paraguayan Space Agency (AEP) deployed a satellite from the International Space Station to help track a tiny parasite that causes Chagas disease. The satellite, Guaranisat-1, is the first developed and put ...
Space Exploration
Mar 25, 2021
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More than 100 working dogs employed by the federal government across the United States have been infected with the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, the cause of Chagas disease, which may lead to heart problems, according to a ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 31, 2018
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Lychnopholide, a substance isolated from a Brazilian plant, and formulated as part of "nanocapsules" cured more than half of a group of mice that had been infected experimentally with Chagas disease parasites. "Chagas disease ...
Bio & Medicine
Jun 20, 2016
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