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Mushroom amino acids revealed as cause of deaths in Yunnan province
(PhysOrg.com) -- Was the consumption of toxic mushrooms responsible for a series of unusual deaths in China’s Yunnan province? A team led by Ji-Kai Liu (Beijing) has now found further proof ...
Thu 2 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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Scientist warns of new MRSA threat
(Medical Xpress) -- An MRSA expert from the University’s Department of Biology & Biochemistry has warned that a new, more toxic strain of the disease poses a serious threat to people in ...
Thu 2 Feb 12 from Medical Xpress
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Chaos in the cell's command center
A defective operating system is never a good thing. Like computers, our cells depend on operating systems to drive normal functions. Gene expression programs comprise the software code our cells ...
Wed 1 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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Protein study gives fresh impetus in fight against superbugs
Scientists have shed new light on the way superbugs such as MRSA are able to become resistant to treatment with antibiotics.
Tue 31 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
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Scientists reveal how cholera bacterium gains a foothold in the gut
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of biologists at the University of York has made an important advance in our understanding of the way cholera attacks the body. The discovery could help scientists target ...
Fri 27 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
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New detection method for UTI-causing bacteria means better treatment and fewer costs
A new method for identifying bacteria that cause urinary tract infections (UTIs) will lead to much faster, more effective treatment as well as a reduction in costs. The procedure, described ...
Wed 25 Jan 12 from Medical Xpress
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Membrane fusion a mystery no more
The many factors that contribute to how cells communicate and function at the most basic level are still not fully understood, but researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have uncovered a ...
Tue 24 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
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The evolution of division of labor
Division of labour is not only a defining feature of human societies but is also omnipresent among the building blocks of biological organisms and is considered a major theme of evolution. Theoretical ...
Tue 24 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
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Multicellular Life Evolves in Laboratory
An evolutionary transition that took several billion years to occur in nature has happened in a laboratory, and it needed just 60 days.
Tue 17 Jan 12 from Wired Science
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Polar growth at the bacterial scale reveals potential new targets for antibiotic therapy
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of microbiologists led by Indiana University researchers has identified a new bacterial growth process -- one that occurs at a single end or pole of the ...
Tue 17 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
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