Study finds natural selection favors cheaters
UC Riverside research focused on interaction between nitrogen-fixing bacteria and their hostsCredit: Sachs lab, UC Riverside Mutualisms, which are interactions ...
Tag: Parasitology
Food safety: Dung beetles and soil bacteria reduce risk of human pathogens
Credit: Matthew Jones, Washington State University Food safety regulations increasingly pressure growers to remove hedgerows, ponds and other natural habitats ...
Back to the drawing board for conservationists battling against infectious parrot disease
A study into the effectiveness of disinfecting birds' nests, carried out by the University of Kent, has led to a ...
New potential approach to treat atopic dermatitis
Credit: (Image: Dermatologische Klinik, USZ) The skin of humans and animals is densely populated by fungi. It is suspected that ...
Honey bee gut microbiome research — NSF grant
Credit: Richard Fell, Professor Emeritus at Virginia Tech Researchers from Virginia Tech were part of a collaborative $958,415 National Science ...
Shorter treatment for Chagas disease could be just as effective, and significantly safer
The results could help remove one of the barriers to treatment scale up and bring new hope for people with ...
How does the body respond to diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis?
Credit: Christensen, et al. (CC BY 4.0, 2019) In diffuse cutaneous leishmanisis (DCL), a rare form of leishmaniasis, parasites grow ...
Bugs or dust? New method quickly reveals whether a surface is truly clean
By combining artificial intelligence and hyperspectral imaging, we can make sure facilities are clean during norovirus and flu season -- ...
BOHEMIA will develop a new vector control strategy to kill malaria-transmitting mosquitoes
Unitaid has awarded a US$25.3 million grant to the Barcelona Institute for Global Health for a project that seeks to ...
University of Utah biologists experimentally trigger adaptive radiation
Preening drives divergent camouflage in feather lice on both micro- and macro-evolutionary timescalesCredit: Adapted from Bush et. al. 2019. Evo ...
Scientists expose hidden risks of diarrhoeal disease
A rapidly evolving new subspecies of the cryptosporidium parasite - a leading cause of diarrhoeal disease in children worldwide - ...
A quick path to antimalarial resistance
P. falciparum parasites can develop drug resistance by epigenetic changes in clag3 gene expressionCredit: Mira et al, 2019 Resistance to ...
Long-lived parents produce better quality offspring
Genetic manipulation that more than doubles lifespan also leads to better offspring - according to new collaborative research from the ...
How the humble marigold outsmarts a devastating tomato pest
Scientists have revealed for the first time the natural weapon used by marigolds to protect tomato plants against destructive whiteflies ...