There are about 1,400 known human pathogens—viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa and helminths that can cause a person's injury or death. But in a world with a trillion individual species of microorganisms, where scientists ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 10, 2021
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New insights into the ability of DNA to overcome harmful genetic changes have been discovered by scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the University of Lausanne and their collaborators. The team found that 26 percent ...
Evolution
May 27, 2021
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Like all living things, humans are the product of a complex evolutionary history. Our ancestors' environment and diets, and the limits of human biology, have led to adaptations that have improved our survival through natural ...
Evolution
May 20, 2021
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In the midst of a devastating global pandemic of wildlife origin and with future spillovers imminent as humans continue to come into closer contact with wildlife, infectious-disease models that consider the full ecological ...
Evolution
May 18, 2021
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Mitochondria—the 'batteries' that power our cells—play an unexpected role in common diseases such as type 2 diabetes and multiple sclerosis, concludes a study of over 350,000 people conducted by the University of Cambridge.
Molecular & Computational biology
May 17, 2021
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Bacteria that move around live on the edge. All the time. Their success, be it in finding nutrients, fending off predators or multiplying, depends on how efficiently they navigate through their confining microscopic habitats. ...
Molecular & Computational biology
May 11, 2021
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The way that many of us live has created the "perfect storm" for the evolution and transmission of infectious diseases like COVID-19 according to a researcher at the University of East Anglia.
Ecology
May 6, 2021
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Florian Schober from the research group Inborn Errors of Endocrinology and Metabolism, the Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, will defend his thesis "Systems biology of mitochondrial dysfunction" on May 7, 2021.
Molecular & Computational biology
May 4, 2021
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Networks offer a powerful way to visualize and analyze complex systems. However, depending on the size and complexity of the network, many visualizations are limited. Protein interactions in the human body constitute such ...
Biotechnology
Apr 23, 2021
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The observation that most of the viruses that cause human disease come from other animals has led some researchers to attempt "zoonotic risk prediction" to second-guess the next virus to hit us. However, in an Essay publishing ...
Ecology
Apr 20, 2021
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