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Potato blight pathogenicity explained by genome plasticity

... Potato Famine of the 1840s and continues to cause devastating agricultural losses worldwide today. Infected plants are characterized by dark lesions on the stems, leaves, and tubers; damage to the tuber surface allows other fungi and bacteria to enter and destroy the core, often resulting in a foul odor. P. ...

Mechanism for neurodenegerative diseases linked to transport proteins

...etter-known ALS and Huntington's, it is a rare but devastating disease, affecting one in 40,000 people, usually between the ages of 30 and 50. Huntington's strikes about four times as many. Neurodegenerative diseases like SBMA are caused by the lengthening of part of a gene that encodes repetitions of the amino...

UNH researcher restoring oyster reefs to Great Bay

...MSX. The previous century saw a slower but equally devastating demise of oysters from exuberant overharvesting. "We have seen local extinction on some reefs," says Ray Grizzle, research associate professor at the University of New Hampshire's Jackson Estuarine Laboratory. Now Grizzle is working to bring oyster...

Researchers appeal for new regulations to save coral reefs from live fish trade

...harvesting of large, predatory fish reef fish have devastating effects. Being able to choose a huge fish to eat from a tank is a big pull in luxury seafood restaurants. Fish such as the Napoleon wrasse, a giant reef fish that commonly reaches 2 m in length and lives for more than 30 years, are top of the menu ...

Global warming may have damaged coral reefs forever

Global warming has had a more devastating effect on some of the world's finest coral reefs t...The research showed that, while the 1998 event was devastating in the short term, the main long-term impacts are down to the damaged reefs being largely unable to ...

New strategy rapidly identifies cancer targets

...division and, ultimately, cancer. This potentially devastating kinase activation carries a calling card in the form of a molecule called a phosphate. "The phosphates signal activated tyrosine kinases," said Druker. "So we decided to use the phosphates as markers." To find these markers, the team took myelo...

Study details hepatitis C ability to block immune system response

...ent of potential new treatment strategies for this devastating global disease. ...

Protein-coated dental implants could improve bone regeneration

...entistry. Loss of teeth and bone is a common and devastating result of gum disease. Dr. Wikesjö, who came to MCG this year from Temple University in Philadelphia, is researching wound-healing and tissue regeneration with a $1.4 million grant from Nobel Biocare, a leading manufacturer of dental implants and e...

'Sticky' mice lead to discovery of new cause of neurodegenerative disease

...all increase in mischarged tRNAs could have such a devastating result in terms of neuronal survival. Nobody I know of has put forth such a mechanism for human neurological disease." Ackerman speculates that human disease could arise when a mild inherited defect in a tRNA synthetase led to a subtle increase in...

Ever-happy mice may hold key to new treatment of depression

... Nature Neuroscience this week. "Depression is a devastating illness, which affects around 10% of people at some point in their life," says Dr. Guy Debonnel an MUHC psychiatrist, professor in the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University, and principal author of the new research. "Current medications for c...

Silence of the amoebae

...at kills human intestinal cells infected with this devastating illness. Now the scientists have developed a way to successfully silence the expression of two additional virulence genes in the same amoebae. Rivka Bracha and colleagues in the lab of Prof. David Mirelman in the Biological Chemistry Department had...

Indonesia - disaster relief aid in action

...ific's "ring of fire" was the target of the latest devastating 6.2 Richter scale quake which struck at 05:54 local time, 22:53 GMT last Friday 26 May. Flattening a densely populated area south of the city of Yogyakarta, near the southern coast of Java, its path has claimed more than 3,000 people, with thousands ...

Pennsylvania researchers find liver transplants provide metabolic cure for rare genetic disease

... metabolic symptoms of 11 patients with a rare but devastating genetic condition known as Maple Syrup Urine Disease (MSUD), according to a study by researchers from Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and the Clinic for Special Children. All patients from the study (ranging in age from 1-20) are alive and well wi...

Dogs keep dying: Many owners unaware of toxic dog food

...t they thought was safe, quality dog food." "It's devastating to dog owners who feel responsible for poisoning their beloved dogs," said Bischoff. Although only about two dozen animal deaths have been officially linked to the tainted pet food, Center and Bischoff know that many more have died or become ill f...

Exotic crab poised for widespread UK invasion

... last century in ships' ballast water, could cause devastating environmental problems if populations are not monitored and controlled, say the study's authors. Researchers from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne carried out the first comprehensive modelling of the crab's migration through Europe and the UK....

How marine reserves are giving coral reefs a helping hand

...ribbean reefs are still trying to recover from the devastating effects of an El Nino bleaching event in 1998 which caused widespread damage to coral around the world. What we have found is that marine reserves might provide exactly the right conditions to allow this to happen. Interestingly, once parrotfish re...

Patients now surviving once-fatal immune disease

... thrive with proper care, despite this potentially devastating disease." Forty of the 41 patients were receiving intravenous infusions of gamma globulin every two to four weeks and 16 (39 percent) were taking chronic (long-term) antibiotics in order to prevent infections, the St. Jude team reported. In addit...

Cholesterol gets 'thumbs up' for role in digit development

...ping embryo and could provide clues for preventing devastating birth defects. ...

UCI researchers discover key factor for survival of human embryonic stem cells

...s (hES) offer great hope for the treatment of some devastating diseases, but finding a way to keep enough of these cells usable and healthy for transplantation in patients has been an ongoing problem. Now scientists at UC Irvine have discovered a way to keep large quantities of these cells alive, a finding that ...

Both alcoholism and chronic smoking can damage the brain's prefrontal cortex

...uffer horrible injuries. And today one of the most devastating battlefield injuries is loss of a limb." The Pentagon announced the project in February when it said it was awarding the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory $30.4 million over two years, with optional additional funding that could br...

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