Parents face a trade-off between putting resources into their offspring versus using resources to enhance their chances of survival so they can have more offspring. The best allocation of resources depends on age. More experienced ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 15, 2022
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The female tsetse fly, which gives birth to adult-sized live young, produce weaker offspring as they get older, and when they feed on poor quality blood.
Plants & Animals
Jul 20, 2021
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Trypanosomatids are single-cell parasites that cause major diseases, such as sleeping sickness and Rose of Jericho, which affect millions of people. Trypanosoma parasites are transmitted to mammals by the blood-sucking tsetse ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 17, 2021
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Thrombosis, the clogging of blood vessels, is a major cause of heart attacks and embolism. Scientists have now engineered the first inhibitors of thrombin, a protease promoting thrombosis, that is three-fold efficient. In ...
Biochemistry
Jan 29, 2021
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A team of Clemson University researchers wants to protect humans and other mammals from the debilitating and even deadly effects of African sleeping sickness.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 20, 2018
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Researchers at the University of Bristol have revealed new details on how the animal disease Nagana is spread by tsetse flies in Africa.
Ecology
May 17, 2018
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Researchers at the University of Bristol have been taking a close-up look at the biting mouthparts of the African tsetse fly as part of ongoing work on the animal diseases it carries.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 21, 2017
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New insight into sleeping sickness suggests communication between parasites that cause infection could affect the severity and spread of the disease.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 5, 2017
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Biochemists from Trinity College Dublin have solved an old mystery as to the cause of especially smelly camel urine, with implications for the millions of people affected by African parasites called trypanosomes. These parasites ...
Biochemistry
Nov 17, 2016
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Why zebras have black and white stripes is a question that has intrigued scientists and spectators for centuries. A research team led by the University of California, Davis, has now examined this riddle systematically. Their ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 1, 2014
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