Phenotype MicroArray(TM) can test thousands of cell properties simultaneously
... technology is optimized for use with bacteria and fungal cells. The company has developed a procedure that...ease agents, and is well along in parallel work on fungal pathogens. The company is also developing PMs for mammalian cell lines....Important pathogens and cures belong to little-known group of fungi
...erived, belongs to one of these non-lichen-forming fungal lineages (Eurotiales) that originated following th...ae (Chaetothyriales) is another example of a major fungal lineage derived from a lichenized ancestor that gave rise to opportunistic pathogens to humans. Fon...Microbes and the dust they ride in on pose potential health risks
...n to the dust itself, even small concentrations of fungal spores can trigger allergic reactions. A study by ...rans-Atlantic journey in dust include bacterial or fungal cultures that do not produce disease, as well as species that do produce disease in both humans and ...Researcher finds that important fungal "scaffolding" genes belong to one of four classes
...classifications may lead to improved ways to treat fungal diseases in humans and could later have widespread... That discovery pointed toward methods of treating fungal diseases, which have dramatically increased in the past decade. Septins are the scaffolds that othe...Amphibian mortality linked to climate change
...hallow water less than eight inches deep developed fungal infections. Those which developed in water which was even a few inches deeper were exposed to about half the level of UV-B radiation and never experienced mortality higher than 19 percent. In other words, the climate-induced fluctuations in water d...Dangerous beauty: Fungal flowers offer clues to biofilm formation on medical implants
...t, every year thousands of deaths can be traced to fungal infections around medical implants. Now, research...biofilms. The gene, called FLO11, is required for fungal biofilm formation. The results, published in the February 2 issue of Science, come from Gerald Fink ...... pneumocystis carinnii pneumonia, an opportunistic fungal infection that is potentially fatal in immune-suppressed patients. That study is being conducted by Parexel International in Berlin, Germany, and, to date, has not turned up any evidence of even moderate side effects. "We are encouraged that the init...Tobacco settlement $ = biomedical research; business development
...esting a substance that kills bacterial, viral and fungal contaminants in food.......ry that may help us win the biomedical war against fungal pathogens. As published in Genes & Development, Dr. Martin Schrder and colleagues have uncovered a specific biological program which prevents the development of the pathogenic form of several fungi, and have thus paved the way for the design of new a...Recombinant yeast as an antifungal vaccine
...tory of vaccine use, primarily for viral diseases, fungal pathogens have only rarely been considered as targ...d pathogenic isolates. The authors also show that fungal cell wall preparations derived from the WI-1- strain also protect mice from lung infections, raising...LabNotes -- Research highlights from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
...d Biotechnology, or Vector, discovered a specific fungal strain has the ability to kill a harmful form of nematodes - tiny organisms that often feed on live plant roots. In greenhouse lab tests, this biocontrol agent reduced nematode infection in tomatoes and cucumbers by more than 61 percent. Throu...Insect defenses point the way to defeating bacterial antibiotic resistance
...t also be tailored to target specific bacterial or fungal strains with heightened effectiveness....Ocean sponge source of new drug discovery
...cal compounds that could lead to new treatment for fungal infections that threaten the lives of AIDS and can...tericin B, the current drug of choice for treating fungal infections, has toxic side effects. Other therapies are available but they are also toxic, or limite......res that a colleague suggested might be fossilized fungal spores. The two sought out Redecker, who works in ...ain an approximate time estimate for the origin of fungal lineages. They concluded in a book chapter published this year in The Mycota (vol. VII B) that the m...New crop protection method could save US farmers billions
... microorganisms could be used to control "scab," a fungal disease that has cost U.S. farmers over $3 billion in the last 10 years, researchers reported here today at the 220th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. Scab -- known among crop scientists as ...Rice research another step forward for green revolution
...amatically reduce problems with the most important fungal disease of rice, with implications for greater ric...hed in the journal Nature, show that losses to the fungal disease "blast" can be almost eliminated in some of the types of glutinous rice in which it was the ...Soybean pest native to China detected in U.S. for first time
...them. The most effective aphid killer is usually a fungal disease that starts to catch up with them about now." Growers who are considering chemical controls need to weigh the costs of those treatments against the uncertainty surrounding how they will perform. Wedberg suggests growers not consider insectici...Chytrid fungus associated with boreal toad deaths in Rocky Mountains
...cted in 1998 and found that characteristics of the fungal bodies present on two of the toads were consistent with chytrid fungal infections."Green examined other toads collected in 1999 and found skin abnormalities that he consid......s on the outbreaks of amphibian disease, including fungal infection, were not apparent. In 1998, the fungus...ens. But researchers do not yet know enough about fungal interactions with amphibian immune systems to understand how the fungus kills the creatures, Carey s......n in sites considered pristine. A newly discovered fungal disease has recently been identified as the cause of amphibian mortality in the Central American and Australian rain forests, areas scientists thought were beyond the reach of human environmental change. Whatever the source of infectious wildlife di...