Listeria: Hypervirulent strains with cerebral and placental tropism
IMAGE: This image shows tissue infected by Listeria (bacteria appear in red). Credit: YH Tsai, M Lecuit, © Institut Pasteur. This news release is available...
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Brain’s immune cells linked to Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, schizophrenia
LA JOLLA–Scientists have, for the first time, characterized the molecular markers that make the brain’s front lines of immune defense–cells called microglia–unique. In the process,...
Forty years after first Ebola outbreak, survivors show signs they can…
Credit: Nicole Hoff Survivors of the first known Ebola outbreak, which occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1976, may be key to...
How migrating birds ‘run a marathon,’ burning muscles and…
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – Migrating birds complete long non-stop flights of many hours for songbirds and days for some shorebirds to reach breeding...
High-carbon coal products could derail China’s clean energy…
Credit: Greenpeace DURHAM, N.C. — China's plan to ramp up production of new chemicals and synthetic fuels made from coal could derail recent efforts to...
Female fiddler crabs want protection not sex
New research has resolved a mystery over why female fiddler crabs visit and leave many males during mating season, and found the females aren't just...
Mongoose pups conceal identity to survive
Credit: Feargus Cooney Young mongooses may conceal their identity — even from their own parents — to survive. Killing of pups is common in mongoose...