Whopping big viruses prey on human gut bacteria
Largest phages ever found in humans target bacteria associated with hunter-gatherer diets Viruses plague bacteria just as viruses like influenza ...
Tag: Parasitology
New study raises hopes of eradication of malaria
After major global successes in the battle against malaria, the positive trend stalled around 2015 - apart from in Zanzibar ...
Mosquito known to transmit malaria has been detected in Ethiopia for the first time
Public health concern is a possible emergence of malaria in new regions, Baylor researcher saysCredit: Robert Rogers/Baylor University A type ...
Madariaga virus spreads to Haiti
A PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases press releaseCredit: Morris, et al. (2019) Madariaga virus (MADV), or South American eastern equine encephalitis ...
Scientists forecast where is the highly invasive fall armyworm to strike next
Staple and economically important crops throughout the world could be at serious risk if efficient measures are not taken soonCredit: ...
Ground breaking new saliva diagnostic test to help eliminate malaria
02 January 2019: ERADA Technology Alliance Ltd (ERADA), pioneers of innovative, rapid diagnostic solutions for early detection of infectious diseases, ...
Contact with monkeys and apes puts populations at risk
Credit: S. Rupp, 2018 (CC BY 4.0) Animal diseases that infect humans are a major threat to human health, and ...
Speed up public health decisions on scabies by skipping full-body exams, study says
Credit: Lucia Romani, 2018, CC BY 4.0 For years, the diagnosis of scabies has relied on time-consuming and intrusive full-body ...
Sleeping sickness parasite uses multiple metabolic pathways
Parasitic protozoa called trypanosomes synthesize sugars using an unexpected metabolic pathway called gluconeogenesis, according to a study published December 27 ...
Janelle Ayres awarded $1.8 million by NOMIS Foundation for research on mechanisms to promote health
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(December 12, 2018) Associate Professor Janelle Ayres has been awarded $1.8 million over two years by ...
Biologists turn eavesdropping viruses into bacterial assassins
How cross-kingdom communication led to a breakthrough phage therapyCredit: Denise Applewhite, Office of Communications, Princeton University Princeton molecular biologist Bonnie ...
Control HIV by treating schistosomiasis, new study suggests
Credit: Wetzel and Shaefer, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain, 2001 Of the 34 million people worldwide with HIV, and the 200 ...
Half a million tests and many mosquitoes later, new buzz about a malaria prevention drug
Researchers tested chemical compounds for their ability to inhibit the malaria parasite at an earlier lifecycle stage than most current ...
Rotavirus outsources cellular protein CK1α to assemble virus factories
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Rotaviruses, like all viruses, reproduce inside living cells. Making new viruses requires assembling replication factories ...
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