Sep. 8, 2016 In preclinical work begun this year, stealth insulin-producers — pancreatic islets from pigs or mice coated with thin bilayers of biomimetic material — are being tested in vivo in a mouse model ...
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Sep. 7, 2016 The growth of bacterial biofilm is problematic when you think of all the liquid flowing through all those miles of tubing at your local hospital or Medi-Centre. The movement of bacteria with flow can ...
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Sep. 6, 2016 Medical products, packaging and food can be safely and efficiently sterilized with electron beams. In the future, researchers also plan to use accelerated electrons to eliminate germs from tissue ...
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Sep. 1, 2016 Antibiotic treatment within the first year of life may wipe out more than an unwanted infection: exposure to the drugs is associated with an increase in food allergy diagnosis, new research ...
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Sep. 1, 2016 A new influenza virus that affects cattle has an official name. influenza D. The executive committee of the International Committee of Taxonomy of Virus announced a new genus, Orthomyxovirdae, with a ...
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Sep. 1, 2016 Researchers have made the first-ever detailed, atomic-level images of a peroxiredoxin, which has revealed a peculiar characteristic of this protein that might form the foundation for an entirely new ...
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Sep. 1, 2016 An international team of researchers has sequenced a strain of the Zika virus that will be used as a World Health Organization reference strain to identify Zika virus infection in the blood, thus ...
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Sep. 1, 2016 Researchers have discovered a new receptor used by tomatoes to detect the organism that causes bacterial speck disease. The receptor, called FLS3, is present in a small number of plant species, ...
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Aug. 31, 2016 A team of Australian researchers has uncovered the world's oldest fossils in a remote area of Greenland, capturing the earliest history of the planet and demonstrating that life on Earth emerged ...
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Aug. 31, 2016 You may not think of yourself in this way, but in some ways your body is just a host for hundreds of trillions of microbes (including bacteria) that colonize us in fairly unique combinations in our ...
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Aug. 31, 2016 The microbiome of patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) at a hospital differs dramatically from that of healthy patients, according to a new study. Researchers analyzing microbial taxa ...
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Aug. 31, 2016 Researchers discovered how to stop bacteria motility and thus how to disrupt bacterial ...
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Aug. 30, 2016 Research shows the diversity of soil bacteria, fungi and nitrogen-fixing bacteria all are better predicted by variation in environmental temperature rather than ...
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Aug. 30, 2016 Monkeys in captivity lose much of their native gut bacteria diversity and their gut bacteria ends up resembling those of humans, new research shows. The results suggest that switching to a low-fiber, ...
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Aug. 30, 2016 Household transmission of Clostridium difficile to pets and children may be a source of community-associated C. difficile infections according to findings from a new study. The study found that ...
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Aug. 30, 2016 Tasmanian devils are evolving in response to a highly lethal and contagious form of cancer, a researcher has ...
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Aug. 30, 2016 In the future, the breeding of the climate-friendly cow can be sped up by using genetic information. A recent study identifies areas in the cow’s genotype which are linked to the amount of methane ...
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Aug. 30, 2016 Female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes can pass the Zika virus to their eggs and offspring, new research shows. The recent Zika virus outbreak in Florida has dramatically increased efforts to remove A. ...
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Aug. 26, 2016 A definitive link between the makeup of the microbiome, the host immune response, and an organism’s ability to heal itself has been confirmed by ...
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Aug. 26, 2016 A new study reveals important new details about the inner workings of the CRISPR-Cas9 machinery in live cells that may have implications for the development of therapeutics that use the powerful gene ...
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