Biologists at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a method for rapidly screening hundreds of thousands of potential drugs for fighting infections, an innovation that holds promise for combating the growing scourge ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 9, 2018
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In modern life sciences, a paradigm shift is becoming increasingly evident: life forms are no longer considered to be self-contained units, but instead highly-complex and functionally-interdependent communities of organisms. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 21, 2017
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Artificial synthesis of natural products for medical and commercial use could be improved with new software developed by researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia. The system, ...
Biotechnology
Jul 19, 2016
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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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Bacteria are masters in adapting to their environment. This adaptability contributes to the bacteria's survival inside their host. Researchers at the Vetmeduni Vienna now demonstrated that the bacterial pathogen Listeria ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 20, 2015
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Mitochondria and chloroplasts are descendants of bacteria that were engulfed by ancient unicellular organisms more than a billion years ago. During their evolution, many genes were transferred from ancestral organelles and ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 24, 2014
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Magnetic bacteria navigate by means of an internal, biological compass. In a remarkable biotechnological feat, LMU scientists have succeeded in transferring the genes required for formation of the biocompass into a non-magnetic ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 25, 2014
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Retroviruses are important pathogens capable of crossing species barriers to infect new hosts, but knowledge of their evolutionary history is limited. By mapping endogenous retroviruses (ERVs), retroviruses whose genes have ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 25, 2013
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Plant-based biofuels were initially hailed as the answer to all problems posed by traditional fossil fuels. Supply is unlimited and they are also neutral to emissions harmful to the environment also. But using plants has ...
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 25, 2013
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In work published this week in Nature's Scientific Reports, a team of researchers from the University of Notre Dame's Eck Institute for Global Health, led by Associate Professor Giles Duffield and Assistant Professor Zain ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 30, 2013
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