Leading bacterial pathogen is sequenced
...plete genome sequence of a leading bacterial plant pathogen offers new ways to stave off agricultural loss and...sed pesticide to ward off bacterial speck, but the pathogen became resistant to the copper, rendering the pesticide virtually useless. Natural resistance genes...Plant pathologists meeting in Charlotte, NC to discuss homeland security, emerging diseases
...ps from both intentional and non-intentional plant pathogen introductions. Information about recent technological advances that allow the determination of entire genome sequences of plant pathogens and their host plants were also presented. "These new discoveries will definitely improve the science of plant p...Plant pathologists from around the world to discuss national agricultural security initiatives
...ps from both intentional and non-intentional plant pathogen introductions and recent technological advances in...programs and case studies of non-intentional plant pathogen introductions. The Security Community's Viewpoint: What issues are at the heart of those charged t...New research challenges prevailing theory of microbial biodiversity
...ies they're working with." Scientists working on a pathogen that emerged in China, for example, cannot automatically assume that the same species of pathogen that emerged in the United States will behave the same way, the researchers said....U.S. Army awards veterinary college researcher $1 million grant to develop vaccine
...at research could lead to the development of rapid pathogen sensing biosensors that could detect multiple pathogens on the battlefield. Inzana is director of Clinical Microbiology in the Veterinary Teaching Hospital and a professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology. He is a diplomate o...On tap: Genomic sequence of an enemy of beer and bread
... and all over the world." This fungus is a serious pathogen of wheat and barley in Michigan and throughout the Midwest. It causes Fusarium head blight, which reduces grain yields, and taints grain with mycotoxins that have been found to be detrimental to human and animal health. F. graminearum also is a pox t...Scientists find gene that protects against potato blight
...ly held the disease at bay. But new strains of the pathogen have emerged, testing the limits of the technology and requiring American farmers to treat potato fields as many as a dozen times a season at a cost of up to $250 per acre. In warmer climates such as Mexico, fields may be treated as many as 25 times ...Human genes can predict AIDS progression rate
...se proteins. This diversity ensures that no single pathogen can decimate an entire population. Consequently, human populations tend to maximize and increase the frequency of HLA subtypes to provide better immunity against a range of pathogens. Nevertheless, pathogens evolve over time and develop the ability t...First-ever images of developing dengue virus obtained at Purdue
...virus and yellow fever. Dengue is a mosquito-borne pathogen that kills more than 24,000 people in the world annually. The pair solved the structure of the mature dengue virus particle last year (see related story), and Rossmann said the new findings were a significant step toward unraveling the behavior of vi...Researchers learning how food-borne bacteria make you sick
... degree of illness include the levels at which the pathogen attaches to intestinal cells, penetrates cell walls and then moves into other organs, said authors Arun Bhunia and Ziad Jaradat, both of the Department of Food Science. The paper is published in the June issue of Applied and Environmental Microbiolog...Gene clustering helps rice plants fight pathogens
...hat recognize and decide how to fight a disease or pathogen cluster together, it gives those genes the best c...staple for about half the world's population, from pathogen attack. Dean and an NC State colleague, Hua-Quin Pan, senior bioinformatics scientist, searched for ...Gene mapping key to unlocking human secrets, says geneticist
...Understanding infection involves understanding the pathogen and the host which both fall under genetic influence, Womack adds. There are an estimated 30,000-40,000 genes in the mammal, all of which have approximately the same amount of genetic information, whether it be cattle or human. Finding where those g...Study suggests genetically modifying sunflowers for white mold resistance
... a disease called white mold, which is caused by a pathogen named Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. The experiment fo...clerotinia sclerotiorum. "Faced with such a severe pathogen challenge, we expected the plants with the OxOx gene to have quite an advantage," says Burke. "Somew...Real-time detection of pathogens in the environment: How close are we?
...ational security mission, will present a review of pathogen detection techniques at Wednesday's American Socie...ogens in the Environment. "Most of the science for pathogen detection has been driven by the military because they've had the dollars and the need," Newby said....Phage therapy could remove foodborne disease from livestock
... we report a promising new natural way of reducing pathogen concentrations in livestock. This takes advantage ...an effective management strategy to eradicate this pathogen from livestock," says Dyen. Outbreaks of Escherichia coli O157:H7 have been linked to the consumptio...Small talk--The gabfest of microbial communication
...esearch has enormous potential for rapid, accurate pathogen sensing and novel antibiotic strategies." Harmless bacteria can also be used to sense lethal strains. V. harveyi, which uses the LuxI/LuxR language to decide when to glow, can sense LuxI from other harmful species. "These guys can sense the 'who's wh...Study sheds light on Chlamydial pathogens
...ed as C. psittaci GPIC) an obligate intracellular pathogen that causes eye infections in guinea pigs with the complete DNA sequences of three other members of the Chlamydiae family, including two that cause serious diseases in humans. The paper, published in the mid-April issue of Nucleic Acids Research...Programmable antibodies-- hybrid cancer therapy described by scientists at Scripps
...eign pathogens. After a bacterium, virus, or other pathogen enters the bloodstream, antibodies target antigens--proteins, carbohydrate molecules, and other pieces of the pathogen--specific to that foreign invader. These antibodies then alert the immune system to the presence of the invaders and attract letha...Scientists find genetic key to TB bacteria survival in lung cells
...ogen. That's why it's still there and important to pathogen survival in macrophages." Thus, according to the researcher, the two enzymes secreted by secA2 act as virulence factors contributing to TB's defense against destruction in the macrophage.Moreover, this newly described virulence mechanism may apply to....... Because C. burnetii is an obligate intracellular pathogen unable to replicate unless it is inside the cells...his may mean that Coxiella became an intracellular pathogen more recently than other, somewhat similar pathogens, says Rekha Seshadri, the TIGR staff scientist ...