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Plasma can be an effective method to kill pathogens on uncooked poultry

February 3, 2012
A new study by food safety researchers at Drexel University demonstrates that plasma can be an effective method for killing pathogens on uncooked poultry. The proof-of-concept study was published in the January issue of the Journal of Food Protection.

New website shares information about deadly tree pathogens

February 3, 2012
Sudden oak death, Port-Orford-cedar root disease and other deadly tree diseases caused by Phytophthora species (pronounced fy-TOF-ther-uhs) are threatening forest ecosystems worldwide. These microorganisms, which are related to algae and diatoms, spend part of their life cycle in soil or water but once they infect trees, they can kill them. ...

New website shares information about deadly tree pathogens

February 2, 2012
ALBANY, Calif.Sudden oak death, Port-Orford-cedar root disease and other deadly tree diseases caused by Phytophthora species (pronounced fy-TOF-ther-uhs) are threatening forest ecosystems worldwide. These microorganisms, which are related to algae and diatoms, spend part of their life cycle in soil or water but once they infect trees, ...

Fighting Infections Diseases – Blocking pathogen’s Entry Into Cells

January 13, 2012
According to a new study published online in the early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, drugs that fight infectious diseases could be designed to block a pathogen's entry into cells rather than to kill the bug itself. Traditionally, drugs for infectious diseases were developed ...

Human health depends on mosquito’s immune response to pathogens

January 11, 2012
As mosquito-borne viral diseases like West Nile fever, dengue fever, and chikungunya fever spread rapidly around the globe, scientists at Virginia Tech are working to understand the mosquito's immune system and how the viral pathogens that cause these diseases are able to overcome it to be transmitted to human and ...

New Way To Learn About – And Potentially Block – Traits In Harmful Pathogens

January 11, 2012
Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have developed a new way to identify the genes of harmful microbes, particularly those that have been difficult to study in the laboratory. This new method uses chemicals to create mutant bacteria, followed by genomic sequencing to identify all mutations. By looking for common ...

New way to learn about, potentially block traits in harmful pathogens

January 9, 2012
Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have developed a new way to identify the genes of harmful microbes, particularly those that have been difficult to study in the laboratory.

Do Our Medicines Boost Pathogens?

December 24, 2011
Scientists of the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITG) discovered a parasite that not only had developed resistance against a common medicine, but at the same time had become better in withstanding the human immune system. With some exaggeration: medical practice helped in developing a superbug. For it appears the battle ...

Do our medicines boost pathogens?

December 21, 2011
Scientists of the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITG) discovered a parasite that not only had developed resistance against a common medicine, but at the same time had become better in withstanding the human immune system. With some exaggeration: medical practice helped in developing a superbug. For it appears the battle ...

Do our medicines boost pathogens?

December 21, 2011
Scientists of the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITG) discovered a parasite that not only had developed resistance against a common medicine, but at the same time had become better in withstanding the human immune system. With some exaggeration: medical practice helped in developing a superbug. For it appears the battle ...

Do our medicines boost pathogens?

December 21, 2011
(Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp) Scientists of the Institute of Tropical Medicine discovered a parasite that not only had developed resistance against a common medicine, but at the same time had become better in withstanding the human immune system. With some exaggeration: Medical practice helped in developing a superbug. "To ...

New Detectors Developed At MIT Could Provide Easy Visual Identification Of Toxins Or Pathogens.

December 18, 2011
Researchers at MIT have developed a new way of revealing the presence of specific chemicals - whether toxins, disease markers, pathogens or explosives. The system visually signals the presence of a target chemical by emitting a fluorescent glow. The approach combines fluorescent molecules with an open scaffolding called a metal-organic ...