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Tearing down the fungal cell wall

Scientists at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute and Duke University Medical Center have pinpointed a fungal gene that appears to play an important role in the development and virulence of Alternaria brassicicola. A. brassicicola, a destructive fungal pathogen that causes black spot disease on most cultivated Brassica crops worldwide, results in considerable leaf loss in many economically imp...

Tears reveal some of their deepest secrets to researchers

It's no secret why we shed tears. But exactly what our tears are made of has remained a mystery to scientists. A new study sheds some light on the complex design of tears. What we think of as tears, scientists call tear film, which is made up of three distinct, microscopic layers. The middle, watery layer ?what we normally think of as tears when we cry ?is sandwiched between a layer of muc...
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Tear-free Onions

Japanese researchers have discovered that it might be possible for tear-free GM onions to taste like onions. They have also found that the chemical in onions that makes you cry is not related to flavour. Researchers at the House Foods Corporation, University of Tokyo and Kyoto University,//tested the theory that the crying response to onions was caused by an enzyme called alliinase. Allii...

Wear and Tear of Stress: The Psychoneurobiology of Aging

Age may be more related to reactions to stress and the absence of disease rather than to a person’s chronological age, say leading researchers in the fields of neurobiology// and psychoneuroendocrinology. And healthy aging is a good bet if stress can be moderated along with adopting an active, healthy lifestyle. This finding will be presented at the 114th Annual Convention of the American...

Girl Complained of Rolling Down Stones Instead of Tears While Crying

No stones were found in the tears of a Jharkhand girl who complained that she wept stones instead of tears, said the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) here Wednesday.// Savitri, a 13-year-old girl from Hajaribagh in Jharkhand, has been complaining of stones in her tears for the last two years. She was brought to the capital Tuesday for treatment. "The initial i...

Methamphetamine Use Increases Risks of Artery Tears and Stroke

Methamphetamine use may be associated with increased risks of major neck artery tears and stroke,// according to an article published in the issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology. “It appears methamphetamine use is toxic to large blood vessels,” said the study’s senior author Wengui Yu, MD, PhD, with the University of California, Irvine Medica...

Tears Reveal Some of Their Deepest Secrets to Researchers

It’s no secret why we shed tears. But exactly what our tears are made of has remained a mystery to scientists.// A new study sheds some light on the complex design of tears. What we think of as tears, scientists call tear film, which is made up of three distinct, microscopic layers. The middle, watery layer – what we normally think of as tears when we cry – is sandwiched between a lay...

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