Microbiology
The Amazon rainforest may be the largest reservoir of soil microbes on Earth, yet researchers acknowledge that many of these organisms are almost unknown to science, according to University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologist Klaus Nusslein.
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Iowa State University researchers have developed a technique for testing for the presence of salmonella that may give investigators better, faster answers.
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With the help of a squid that uses a luminescent bacterium to create a predator-fooling light organ and a fish that uses a different strain of the same species of bacteria like a flashlight to illuminate the dark nooks of the reefs where it lives, scientists have found that gaining a single gene is enough for the microbe to switch host animals.
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A potent combination of powerful new analysis methods and abundant data from genomics projects is carrying microbiology forward into a new era.
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A team of Princeton University scientists has discovered that chains of proteins found in most living organisms act like adaptive machines, possessing the ability to control their own evolution.
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Unprecedented changes in biodiversity have coincided with the emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases around the world. To address this problem, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have announced $16 million in funding for eight projects.
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Ichor Medical Systems has been awarded a two-year contract by the U.S. Department of Defense to assist the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in the development of a DNA vaccine for equine encephali
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Aethlon Medical, Inc. has announced that research related to the Aethlon Hemopurifier as a potential treatment for Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever has been initiated at The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee has been awarded a five year, $8.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health's Health's Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases.
The grant will be used
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