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Vanishing Honey Bees

...lony" in Merced County. This points hand at a rare microbe that use to affect the Asian bees. But now it seems to have developed a deadly strain in the US and Europe. He conducted the tests on the materials of dead bees that he found in his mission Bay lab. He found genes of the single-celled, spore-producin...

Link Between Eye Infections and Contact Lens Use Exposed

... microbes into a mist and increase exposure to the microbe that causes the infection," said Joslin. Reusing solutions and not rubbing lens when cleaning and storing them could also result in more exposure to the microbe. Since these factors are linked to an augmented probability of infection and this is t...

Vaccines On Your Plate

... colleagues inserted the genetic material from the microbe responsible for producing cholera toxin, into a rice plant, whose genome has recently been mapped. The plants produced the toxin and when the rice grains were fed to mice they provoked immunity from the diarrhea-causing bacterium. The bacteria that...

New Bacterium Discovered - Related to Cause of Trench Fever

...eagues from other institutions, found that the new microbe is genetically similar to one spread by body lice ...itor. They were again surprised to find that this microbe is the second Bartonella species to cause infection in AIDS patients. Like trench fever, cat scrat...

"Decryption" of Enzyme's Functions Paves Way for Future Drug Discovery

...e from a bacterium known as Thermotoga maritima, a microbe that normally lives at very high temperatures and pressures near volcanic ocean vents. Its structure was determined as a part of the structural genomics project, a large-scale, worldwide effort to determine the structures of enzymes and receptors. ...

DNA Transplant Brings Creation of Artificial Life a Step Closer

... as he has replaced the entire genetic code of one microbe with that of another. In the breakthrough experiment, the researcher substituted the DNA of a bacterium with that of a close relative to turn it into a different species. The success of his work paves the way for future studies aimed at creating...

Translating Structure into Function

...e from a bacterium known as Thermotoga maritima, a microbe that normally lives at very high temperatures and pressures near volcanic ocean vents. Its structure was determined as a part of the structural genomics project, a large-scale, worldwide effort to determine the structures of enzymes and receptors. ...

Structure of TB Enzyme Points the Way to New Drugs: Study

...evidence to suggest that an enzyme secreted by the microbe that causes tuberculosis would make a promising target for new drugs to combat the deadly infectious disease. The Swiss team first identified the enzyme, protein kinase G (PknG), as a promising drug target back in 2004. At the time, they said th...

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