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Prions Capacity can Be Aggrevated by Solid Particles

...known that 'infected pastures' have the ability to infect new animals," according to Aiken. Pedersen notes that soils are a complex mixture of organic and inorganic components that vary across the landscape and that scientists are just beginning to tease out factors in soils that may contribute to transmi...

Gadrasil Could Prove Effective in Men too

...n modern society. In North America, HPV is said to infect half of all sexually active women between 18 and 22. In most women, HPV clears up on its own but for some, the infection persists and can lead a couple of decades later, when they are in their prime child-rearing years, directly to cervical cancer,...

New Insights into Prion Propogation

...ery few prions have been fully described. How they infect and propagate is not fully understood. New insights into prion propagation reported in the Molecular Cell by Susan Liebman, distinguished university professor of biological sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, may help tug back the ve...

US Baby Dies of Salmonella from Pet Turtle

...es, whose sale was banned in 1975 because they can infect children. The infant girl was taken to a Florida hospital, where she was in febrile and in septic shock, on February 20. She was given antibiotics but died on March 1, the CDC said in its "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report." Cultures of cereb...

New Oncogene for Brain Cancer

...injected into the mouse brain. The viral particles infect only glial cells, where the genes are expressed. This system allows the researchers to observe whether a gene identified in a correlation study plays an active role in tumorigenesis. It also permits the delivery and study of combinations of genes. ...

Wet Weather Heralds the Mosquito Menace

... is also found in the United States. The virus can infect humans, birds, mosquitoes, horses and some other mammals. West Nile virus (WNV) is a potentially serious illness. Experts believe WNV is established as a seasonal epidemic in North America that flares up in the summer and continues into the fall. ...

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