Dispersin' Escherichia coli all over the gut
...aggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) is an emerging pathogen thatcauses endemic and epidemic diarrhea in developing and industrializedcountries. The bacteria stick to the surface of the cells lining the gut andrelease specific toxins that cause the cells to "open the floodgates" anddramatically increase secret...NSF establishes center for biophotonics at UC Davis
...tissue. Plans are under way to develop a hand-held pathogen detection unit to immediately identify the presence of potentially infectious agents, from anthrax to smallpox. "The biophotonics field is innovative and its applications are far-reaching," said Bill Goldstein, associate director of LLNL's physics a...Scientists identify motor that powers parasitic cell invasion
...ronically infects half the world's population. The pathogen is a leading cause of neurological birth defects in children born to mothers who contract the disease during pregnancy and can cause fatal toxoplasmosis encephalitis in immunosuppressed patients. Scientists hope that understanding the gene's function...Virginia Bioinformatics Institute to decode plant devourer genomes
...he genomes of two species of Phytophthora, a plant pathogen whose name means "plant devourer." Attacking a va...preting the P. ramorum sequence, since this forest pathogen has only recently emerged and its genetics are presently a mystery. Phytophthora pathogens are esp...JGI to decode DNA of destructive plant pathogen
... to learn the genetic secrets of a notorious plant pathogen that causes billions of dollars a year in damage t... will be the first publicly available Stramenopile pathogen genomes. "Phytophthora pathogens are literally destroyers from a distant (biological) kingdom," Tyl...Scientists at TSRI identify thousands of proteins associated with deadliest form of malaria
...lciparum should help scientists understand how the pathogen causes malaria and, with luck, how to thwart it. T...ates believe that this is one of the ways that the pathogen is able to thrive in two different organisms (mosquitoes and humans). "The switching between stages ...Scientists decipher genetic code of malaria parasite
... Genetic Code The malaria parasite's success as a pathogen depends partly on its ability to evade elimination by the human immune system. Gardner said the genome analysis identified about 200 parasite genes that produce proteins involved in that elaborate evasion. Previous research had shown that, during th...Genome of potential bioterror agent seqenced
...ete genomic sequence of Brucella suis, a bacterial pathogen and potential bioterrorism agent that could be tar...al similarities" between the genome of Brucella a pathogen that infects only animals -- and other microbes that cause diseases in plants or live symbiotically ...UC researchers confirm coast redwood and Douglas fir as hosts for sudden oak death pathogen
...ir -- are susceptible to Phytophthora ramorum, the pathogen that causes Sudden Oak Death, University of Califo...s earlier this year, but couldn't confirm that the pathogen was causing infection until living cultures were successfully grown from the field samples. It is no...Sequence provides insights into a pathogen's virulence mechanism allowing for vaccine development
...find vaccine candidates or drug targets to fight a pathogen with broad impact on human health."...Vitex reports parasite inactivation results at ISBT 2002
...nd availability of the transfusion blood supply by pathogen reduction or removal, reported today that its INAC... chemistry and safety profile for the INACTINE TM pathogen reduction system will be presented in three scientific posters on Tuesday, August 27, the company an...HIV targets active genes in cells
...continue to live, grow and divide, reproducing the pathogen as the cell itself reproduces. "Not so with HIV," Bushman said. "HIV has aggressive targeting. That targeting is damaging to the host, but for an aggressive parasite in a cell that's only going to live for a day or so, it makes a sensible evolutionar...Natural-born killers enlisted to fight anthrax
...treptococcus pneumoniae, the widespread infectious pathogen responsible for most cases of ear infections, pneumonia and bacterial meningitis. They again demonstrated the potential of the enzyme to prevent infections by using a nasal spray containing the enzyme to rid mice of populations of the bug behind the ...Gene may protect abused kids against behavior problems
...s. By turning to maltreatment -- an environmental pathogen known to bring about antisocial behavior -- the UW-Madison researchers were able to identify a genetic variable necessary to solve the equation of why only some maltreated children develop antisocial behavior....University of Georgia researchers link increased risk of illness to sewage sludge used as fertilizer
...or use as a fertilizer, EPA looked at chemical and pathogen risks separately without considering that certain ...ical Society recently published another article on pathogen risks from sludge by Lewis and Gattie in their journal Environmental Science & Technology. Though m...Scientists sequence genome of rice-killing fungus
... that the genomic structure of a significant plant pathogen has been made publicly available. Joint funding ...ean says the goal is to "identify all genes in the pathogen and the host that are functionally responsible for controlling interactions of whether you have dise...Bacterial quorum-sensing structure solved
...he Cornell-Argonne-Monsanto study, an agricultural pathogen called Agrobacterium tumefaciens that causes tumors in a wide variety of plants, seems almost trivial. But there was a good reason for the choice. "We started with Agrobacterium tumefaciens because it is a much-studied and well-understood organi...Clemson researchers create biosensors to protect nation's food and water supplies
...can move into crevices in the food source, where a pathogen could be hidden from microscopic view," Dawson said. "The particle's extremely small size increases the odds that the antibody and antigen will link, enabling the sensor to give off a glow. The more connections, the greater the glow." Derived from t...Lawrence Livermore research team finds unique DNA signatures to improve anthrax detection
...s, they can be used for rapid, specific, DNA-based pathogen detection on many platforms, including the Livermore-developed portable instrument known as the Hand-held Advanced Nucleic Acid Analyzer, (HANAA). They can also be used in a detection system developed by Livermore and Los Alamos scientists that was u...... the target. Pasteurella multocida is a well-known pathogen in veterinary medicine. Its various strains affect domesticated and agricultural animals, leading usually to serious, and often deadly, respiratory infections. Contact with animals sometimes results in respiratory problems in humans, and skin infec...