Cornell scientists link E. coli bacteria to Crohn's disease
...enic bacteria such as salmonella, cholera, bubonic plague is associated with intestinal inflammation in patients with Crohns disease in their research paper published July 12 by The ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology. Crohns disease, an incurable inflammatory disorder of the int...UCF research links proteins, stem cells and potential Alzheimer's treatment
... tissue from stem cells, most of the diseases that plague mankind will be eradicated almost overnight, Sugaya said. But he said his research shows that its not so simple. Sugaya is now investigating whether a combination of phenserine and his compound (NBI-18), which increases brain stem cells by 600 perc...... well as for the confusion and disorientation that plague elderly individuals who have trouble distinguishing between separate but similar places and experiences. Forming memories of places and contexts in which episodes occur engages a part of the brain called the hippocampus. The laboratory of Nobel La...How plague-causing bacteria disarm host defense
...e most infamous, being responsible for the bubonic plague (also known as the Black Death), which killed more than 200 million people in the Middle Ages. "This bacterial species could still be a threat today," said Navarro, adding that scientists had isolated an antibiotic-resistant strain of this species....Herpes infection may be symbiotic, help beat back some bacteria
...ctions can better resist the bacterium that causes plague and a bacterium that causes one kind of food poisoning, researchers report in this week's Nature. Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis attributed the surprising finding to changes in the immune system triggered by the ...Scientists discover rare 'gene-for-gene' interaction that helps bacteria kill their host
Scientists have discovered that a cousin of the plague bacterium uses a single gene to out-fox insect immune defences and kill its host. In research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, scientists have found that Photorhabdus bacteria produce an antibiotic which inhi...Bacteria control how infectious they become, study finds
...est that bacteria that cause diseases like bubonic plague and serious gastric illness can turn the genes that make them infectious on or off. Knowing how disease-causing bacteria, like Yersinia pestis and E. coli, do this may one day help scientists create drugs that control the expression of these genes,...India's biotech industry emerging as world innovator, collaborator, competitor
...oximity to the shocking disparities in health that plague our globe today. Although these firms are uniquely suited to address these needs, they require financial and political support before they will commit to doing so. Indias health system is being hit with a double burden of communicable and non-commu...New chemistry approach promises less expensive drugs
...hat can damage the body, two perennial issues that plague the manufacturing process. David MacMillan, one of the researchers on the team, said the discovery is important not only for its industrial applications, but also because of the new research possibilities it opens up. "This is a new type of chemis...Will the plague pathogen become resistant to antibiotics?
...ist several antibiotics has also been found in the plague bacillus Yersinia pestis, gene sequence researcher...ity to resist many of the antibiotics used against plague has been found so far in only a single case of the disease in Madagascar. But because the same abili...Irish potato famine disease came from South America
...blight epidemics across the world. It continues to plague modern potato and tomato plants. Researchers from around the globe have joined forces to understand the pathogen and learn what makes the plant destroyer kill. Ristaino is part of a team that sequenced the entire genome of P. infestans recently at...New hope for regenerative medicine
...nd use sidesteps many of the ethical concerns that plague traditional ES cell therapies. However, uniparental ES cell research faces the biological hurdle of genomic imprinting, in which specific gene expression patterns are dictated by the parental origin. Uniparental cells only have the imprinting marks f...Disabling key protein may give physicians time to treat pneumonic plague
...adly attack of the bacterium that causes pneumonic plague is significantly slowed when it can't make use of ...r of molecular microbiology. "That makes pneumonic plague a concern both because of its rare natural outbreaks, one of which began in the Congo in 2005, and b...'Home run' study on spread of disease published
... Of the eight species of trematode parasites that plague the snails in Japan, only the most common, Cercaria batillariae, has arrived in America. Gene sequencing showed that this single species actually consisted of several cryptic, or similar looking but genetically distinct, species in its home range in...This party doesn't start until the hosts arrive
... Of the eight species of trematode parasites that plague the snails in Japan, only the most common, Cercaria batillariae, has arrived in America. Luckily for the researchers, gene sequencing showed that this single species actually consisted of several genetically distinct cryptic species in its home rang...Finding a cure for cancer: The holy grail of science
To find a cure for cancer, the modern-day plague of our society is synonymous to finding the holy grail of science. At a recent EuroDYNA conference in Brno, Czech Republic, scientists from around Europe came together to share their research carried out in the field of genetics and cell nucleus ...USGS at The Wildlife Society: From sea-ice change to contaminants to predators and prey
..., 2006, 1:20- 1:40 p.m. The effects of sylvatic plague on black-footed ferret recovery: The black-foot...-footed ferrets and prairie dogs against plague. A plague vaccine for prairie dogs that can be delivered via oral baits has been shown to be efficacious in la...A wolf in sheep's clothing: Plague bacteria reveal one of their virulence tricks
The bacterium that causes the plague belongs to a virulent family of bacteria called Yersinia, a group that also includes a pathogen responsible for food poisoning. These bacteria insert into their host cells proteins and other virulence factors, which kill by -- among other things -- d...Study illuminates how the plague bacteria causes disease
The bacteria responsible for the plague and some forms of food poisoning "paralyze" the im...0 million people are estimated to have died in the plague epidemics that devastated the ancient world, the researchers said. The successful weaponization of p......class IV adenylyl cyclase (AC), an enzyme found in plague bacteria -- Yersinia pestis -- by purifying and ...ther unrelated proteins. The purpose of AC-IV in plague is not well understood, but it may play a role in disrupting cell processes in the infected host. Pl...