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 ...
Tag: Parasitology
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 ...