News articles tagged with 'host'
Did dinosaurs have lice? Researchers say it's possible
— 6 Apr 2011 15:22 | Geology and palaeontologyA new study louses up a popular theory of animal evolution and opens up the possibility that dinosaurs were early - perhaps even the first - animal hosts of lice…
Pitt-Stanford research suggests aimless proteins crucial to disease
— 1 Apr 2011 14:45 | HealthResearchers from the University of Pittsburgh and Stanford University discovered that a supposedly inactive protein actually plays a crucial role in the ability of one the world's most…
Study helps explain how pathogenic E. coli bacterium causes illness
— 14 Mar 2011 19:54 | HealthScientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, have shown how the O157:H7 strain of Escherichia coli causes…
Malaria's weakest link
— 9 Mar 2011 19:14 | HealthA group of researchers from EPFL's Global Health Institute (GHI) and Inserm (Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale, the French government agency for biomedical research)…
Yale scientists identify a deadly tool in Salmonella's bag of tricks
— 4 Feb 2011 16:43 | HealthThe potentially deadly bacterium Salmonella possesses a molecular machine that marshals the proteins it needs to hijack cellular mechanisms and infect millions worldwide…
Research shows how pathogenic bacteria hide inside host cells
— 26 Jan 2011 18:19 | HealthA new study into Staphylococcus aureus, the bacterium which is responsible for severe chronic infections worldwide, reveals how bacteria have developed a strategy of hiding within host…
Protein helps parasite survive in host cells
— 4 Jan 2011 20:05 | HealthResearchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have learned why changes in a single gene, ROP18, contribute substantially to dangerous forms of the parasite Toxoplasma…
Scientists uncover process enabling toxoplasmosis parasite to survive homelessness
— 21 Sep 2010 12:10 | HealthThe parasite responsible for toxoplasmosis requires a stress response system that helps it survive the move to infect new cells, Indiana University School of Medicine scientists have…
Scientists pry new information from disease-causing, shellfish-borne bacterium
— 20 Aug 2010 11:06 | HealthResearchers at UT Southwestern Medical Centre have uncovered a key weapon in the molecular arsenal the infectious bacterium Vibrio parahaemolyticus (V. para) uses to kill cells and…
CCNY biologists study rainforest host-plant associations
— 19 Aug 2010 16:20 | BiologyThe widening of the Panama Canal currently underway has created a rare opportunity to study the insects that inhabit the plants of environmentally sensitive Central American rain forest…