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Plant microbe shares features with drug-resistant pathogen

Posted on 18. Jun, 2009 by admin.

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Implications for biotech applications; possible targets for infection-fighting drugs
UPTON, NY — An international team of scientists has discovered extensive similarities between a strain of bacteria commonly associated with plants and one increasingly linked to opportunistic infections in hospital patients. The findings suggest caution in the use of the plant-associated strain for a range of biotech [...]

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New malaria agent found in chimpanzees close to that commonly observed in humans

Posted on 31. May, 2009 by admin.

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Researchers based in Gabon and France report the discovery of a new malaria agent infecting chimpanzees in Central Africa. This new species, named Plasmodium gaboni, is a close relative of the most virulent human agent P. falciparum; it is described in an article published May 29 in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens.
P. falciparum is the [...]

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CSHL scientists discover specific small RNA pathways protect germ line from transposons

Posted on 08. May, 2009 by admin.

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In the fruit fly ovary, germ line and somatic cells use different piRNA pathways in transposon defense
Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. – Cells of higher organisms are in a constant struggle against some of their own DNA – repeated bits of DNA sequence called transposons that have infiltrated host genomes over the eons. Transposons damage the [...]

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