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Protein discovery targets antibiotic-resistant bacteria

...y bacteria that enter our bodies and move from the stomach into the gastro-intestinal tract. “If we can block the sensory pathway, then the bacteria can’t adapt to that change in their environment, and won’t be able to infect,?says Dr. Martin. In North America, the people treated for food poisoning with d...

Wheat can fatally starve insect predators

...t gene produces proteins that appear to attack the stomach lining of a crop-destroying fly larvae so that the bugs starve to death. The gene's role in creating resistance to Hessian flies was a surprise to U.S. Department of Agriculture and Purdue University researchers, discoverers of the gene and its fun...

Prehistoric origins of stomach ulcers uncovered

...t the ubiquitous bacteria that causes most painful stomach ulcers has been present in the human digestive sys...licobacter pylori bacteria now known to cause most stomach ulcers. They found that the genetic differences between human populations that arose as they dispers...

Fat overrides effects of vitamin C

Fats in our stomach may reduce the protective effects of antioxidants ...ation of potential cancer-forming compounds in the stomach is less than when no lipids are present. “Our results illustrate how diet can influence gastric bioc...

8 plants from South Africa may hold potential for treating high blood pressure

...tions and used by native South Africans to relieve stomach ailments, rheumatism and high fevers. Other researchers found (1966) that native South Africans rubbed the leaves of the plant on the head for sinus headaches and used plant infusions for colic and restlessness in young children. The most direct disc...

Crammed with charged DNA, pressure rises inside virus

It could be an artist’s depiction of someone’s stomach before and after a rather decadent meal. But it is a 3-D cryoelectron microscope reconstruction of the cross-section of a virus, before and after cramming itself full of its own DNA. The virus, phi29, has a tiny motor that pumps its DNA into the ca...

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