Bacteria recognize antimicrobials, respond with counter-defenses
...disease-causing, Gram-negative bacteria maintain a stronghold in the midst of the body's attempts to get rid of them. Strangely enough, the same molecules that the body sends out to help destroy salmonella inadvertently launch bacterial defenses. It is as if missiles armed, rather than demolished, the target....Scientist warns of threat to last stronghold of endangered turtle
...nce of the leatherbacks of West Africa as a global stronghold but we need to know where they live to protect them." The tracking data is publicly available online and is creating much interest with more than 100,000 hits from over 150 countries on the site www.seaturtle.org/tracking each month. It's though......or short durations. The other mountain gorilla stronghold is located just south of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in the Virunga Volcanoes on the borders of Uganda, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The last census of the Virunga gorilla population in 2003 revealed 380 gorillas, up from 324 i...