How does the structure of cytolysins influence their activity?
Credit: Jillian Nickel Although Enterococcus faecalis is usually an innocuous member of the bacterial community in the human gut, it ...
Tag: Parasitology
Blocking how the malaria parasite suppresses the immune response
Scientists seek to stop pathogen's best weapon to cause disease COLUMBUS, Ohio - The parasites that cause severe malaria are ...
Mycoplasma mobile moves into overdrive: Twin motor modified from ATP synthase discovered
Scientists discover gliding machinery for Mycoplasma mobile to be a new structure that could share ancestry with ATP synthaseCredit: Yuya ...
A new avenue for fighting drug-resistant bacteria
Targeting an RNA sequence in pathogenic bacteria could make them more sensitive to antibioticsCredit: Christian Fleury (INRS) A small regulatory ...
Neonatal meningitis: the immaturity of microbiota and epithelial barriers implicated
Credit: Biology of Infection Unit, Institut Pasteur Meningitis is associated with high mortality and frequently causes severe sequelae. Newborn infants ...
‘Smart collar’ could prevent tapeworms in dogs
Credit: Yang S-J et al., 2021, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Dogs infected with echinococcosis play a major ...
Science on a shoestring
A life in the liberal arts from beginning to endCredit: World Scientific "Long, thin, and cool as hell" was how ...
Sanaria vaccine results show unprecedented progress in battle against variant malaria
Findings published in Nature offer potential for use by travelers and prevention of malaria in African populations in near future ...
The earthworm in new light
New method to visualize anatomical structures including the products of an earthworm's metabolismCredit: Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology/PNAS ref. ...
Parasites manipulate praying mantis’s polarized-light perception, causing it to jump into water
Credit: Takuya Sato Researchers have revealed that praying mantis (mantids) infected with parasitic hairworms are attracted to horizontally polarized light ...
More intense predation in the tropics can limit marine invasions
Save predators to prevent invasionsCredit: Michele Repetto Night and day, oil tankers, yachts and cargo ships stacked with shipping containers ...
Battle of the Pleiades against plant immunity
Mythological nymphs reincarnate as a group of corn smut proteins to launch a battle on maize immunity. One of these ...
Preventing the break-in of the toxoplasmosis parasite
Scientists from the universities of Geneva and Zurich and the PSI have identified the structure and functions of RON13, an ...
Cat-borne parasite Toxoplasma induces fatally bold behavior in hyena cubs
Credit: Zach Laubach Best known for its presence in house cats and a tendency to infect and alter the behaviors ...
The very venomous caterpillar
Venomous caterpillar has strange biologyCredit: Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland The venom of a caterpillar, native to ...
Mushroom growing out of fossilized ant reveals new genus and species of fungal parasite
Credit: George Poinar Jr., OSU CORVALLIS, Ore. - Oregon State University research has identified the oldest known specimen of a ...
Profiling gene expression in plant embryos one nucleus at a time
Following fertilization, early plant embryos arise through a rapid initial diversification of their component cell types. As a result, this ...
VIMS study uncovers new cause for intensification of oyster disease
Rise in disease virulence due to evolving parasite, not just droughtCredit: © R. Carnegie/VIMS. A new paper in Scientific Reports ...
Yellow fever mosquitoes evolve different strategies to resist pesticides
Unaffected mosquitoes carry different mutations from those that are temporarily knocked outCredit: Saavedra-Rodriguez K et al., 2021, PLOS Genetics The ...
New beetle-dwelling roundworm species discovered in Japan
Cryptaphelenchus abietis, a new nematode species isolated from bark beetles that emerged from a dead log in Nagano, Japan, may ...
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Scientists discover rare 6-planet system that moves in strange synchrony
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Ohio State receives $14 million to study optimal aspirin therapy in pregnancy
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AI image generator Stable Diffusion perpetuates racial and gendered stereotypes, study finds
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‘Dolomite Problem’: 200-year-old geology mystery resolved
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The dangers of being a saber-toothed cat in Los Angeles 12,000 years ago
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Rise of microplastics discovered in placentas of Hawaiʻi mothers