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Secret sex life of killer fungus?

...udy, the researchers report that the analysis of a worldwide collection of 290 specimens of the fungus revealed nearly equal proportions of two different sexes, or "mating types," which in theory could have sex with each other. Additional work on specific populations of the fungus in America and Europe showed ...

Biota makes major antiviral discovery

...ratory syncytial virus) infection. Biota has filed worldwide patents and selected a lead candidate with a series of backups for further preclinical development prior to human clinical trials. RSV infection is an important medical need and already a billion-dollar market, with growing visibility among pharmace...

Study uncovers dirty little secret: Soil emissions are much-bigger-than-expected component of air pollution

...e emissions total more than 40 million metric tons worldwide each year, with 64 percent coming from fossil fuel combustion, 14 percent from burning and a surprising 22 percent from soil, said Lyatt Jaeglé, a UW assistant professor of atmospheric sciences. The new research shows that the component from soil is ...

Learning how SARS spikes its quarry

...ratory syndrome) coronavirus was responsible for a worldwide outbreak in 2002-2003 that affected more than 8,000 people and killed 774 before being brought under control. Public health experts worry about another outbreak of the virus, which originates in animals such as civet cats. The research team, led by...

LIAI scientists make major finding on potential smallpox treatment

... has been the subject of intense research interest worldwide in the last several years, prompted by bioterroris...me point. This concern has led to the creation of worldwide stockpiles of the smallpox vaccine over the last several years. Kronenberg said that if further st...

Controlling wildlife trade key to preventing health crises, study says

...ng some 30 percent of all of the amphibian species worldwide with extinction. And even parasites on animals in the trade carry animal and human pathogens, such as heartwater disease, Lyme disease, and babesiosis." Besides direct effects of diseases to humans and animals, the economic impacts of disease spread...

New results validating Pall prion reduction filter disclosed at ISBT Congress

...medicine is an ongoing challenge to blood services worldwide as new threats, such as variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), emerge. An update on the latest measures to protect the public from the human form of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), commonly called Mad Cow Disease, and minimize risk of tran...

DDT-resistant insects have additional genetic advantage that helps resistance spread

...iphenyl-trichloroethane) increased enormously on a worldwide basis after World War II, primarily because of its effectiveness against the mosquito that spreads malaria and lice that carry typhus. DDT-resistant mosquitoes were first detected in India in 1959, and they have increased so rapidly that when a loca...

Techniques available to detect soil that inhibits destructive soybean pest

... weapon in fighting the parasites, which are found worldwide in soybean-producing areas. "Using plants bred to resist pests is not the complete answer, so it's important to find suppressive mechanisms," Westphal said. "Bio-control is much more desirable than using chemicals in order to limit damage to the env...

UW scientists report a new method to speed bird flu vaccine production

...e. The work is especially important as governments worldwide prepare for a predicted pandemic of avian influenza. Writing this week (Oct. 31, 2005) in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science (PNAS), a team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Unive...

Volunteers sought for avian flu vaccine study

...health experts fear that avian flu could lead to a worldwide pandemic if the virus becomes easily transmittable,leading to a public health crisis. Currently, most people are highly vulnerable to infection from avianinfluenza, as the current influenza vaccines do not protect against thisnew strain of the viru...

New study shows measles immunization may prevent fatal brain infection

...ization programs. Despite recent reductions in the worldwide toll of measles, he noted, the disease still accounts for almost half of the 1.6 million annual childhood deaths due to vaccine-preventable diseases. ...

Prenatal exposure to famine increases risk of schizophrenia

...ound information in the article. It is distributed worldwide with a lifetime risk of approximately 1 percent. Schizophrenia is increasingly viewed as a neurodevelopmental disorder with environmental influences during early brain development modifying risk of schizophrenia. These influences, none of which are y...

Gene that helps mosquitoes fight off malaria parasite identified

... the malaria parasite to nearly 550 million people worldwide each year with these cases resulting in more than 2 million deaths annually. The protective gene was identified in a study conducted by a team of investigators from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Malaria Research Institute, the...

Zebrafish may hold key to improved cancer research

...s the many mutant lines of zebrafish now developed worldwide to aid research on specific genes in development and disease. This research has proven that the mechanism of cancer prevention in fish is remarkably similar to that of humans, including the genes involved. "Zebrafish are now changing the face of ca...

Mouse genome much more complex than expected

Over 100 scientists worldwide publish joint study in Science More than 100 scientists from Australia, Asia, Europe and the US have been probing the genome of the mouse in a joint study lasting several years. Their results in some aspects have completely overturned geneticists' t...

Study uncovers placental microtransfusions lead to transmission of AIDS virus during childbirth

...nfected themselves. That's a half million newborn worldwide every year facing chronic illness and premature death on their first day out of the safety of the womb. "The question has always been how does the virus get from the mothers to the babies?" said principal investigator Dr. Steven Meshnick, professor ...

Delaware scientists make significant advance in study of small RNAs

...from Arabidopsis. Prior to their work, scientists worldwide in a painstakingly slow and labor-intensive process had documented about 6,000 small RNAs from the plant. Meyers had been sequencing RNAs in rice and Arabidopsis using MPSS when Green approached him about the possibility of sequencing small RNAs us...

2005 AIDS figures released by WHO and UNAIDS

...heck out the complete report on the HIV situation worldwide , available in several languages. There is new ev...eleased today in advance of World AIDS Day, marked worldwide on the first of December. Several recent developments in the Caribbean region (in Bahamas, Barbados...

Earliest European Farmers Left Little Genetic Mark On Modern Europe

...heck out the complete report on the HIV situation worldwide , available in several languages. There is new ev...eleased today in advance of World AIDS Day, marked worldwide on the first of December. Several recent developments in the Caribbean region (in Bahamas, Barbados...

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