What The Social Lives Of Brewera s Yeast Say About Evolution

But despite the fact that yeast are a major laboratory "workhorse," any further exploration of their social lives had remained almost entirely neglected.

Novel Regulatory Step During HIV Replication

Their study, published in this week's early online edition of the Public Library of Science, PLoS Pathogens, describes a new biological function for sulfonation - a type of chemical modification - which ensures ...

Elk Poop And Other "Pathogens"

Hat tip to the " Western Wanderer ". Initially, I didn't believe what I was reading, but the Western Wanderer explained it quite well.

Prioritizing Genomic Drug Targets in Pathogens: Application to Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Abstract We have developed a software program that weights and integrates specific properties on the genes in a pathogen so that they may be ranked as drug targets.

Previously unknown regulatory step during HIV replication provides...

A previously unknown regulatory step during human immunodeficiency replication provides a potentially valuable new target for HIV/AIDS therapy, report researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies ...

Business calendar

The board of directors of Memorial University Medical Center will have the following meetings in the Nursing Center of Excellence conference room: 7:30 a.m. Monday: Quality Improvement & Professional Affairs ...

A New Hope for Human Malaria Vaccine

Every day in Africa alone, 2000 children die from malaria, as biting mosquitoes spread the infection between humans.

AED Machines Equipped for Children

Each year we hear of young children and teenagers dying in heart-related incidents.

A Single Gene Leads Yeast Cells To Cooperate Against Threats

An ingenious social behavior that mobilizes yeast cells to cooperate in protecting each other from stress, antibiotics, and other dangers is driven by the activity of a single gene, scientists report this week ...

Optical Tweezers to Pick Out Pathogens from Blood Samples

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has licensed its optical tweezer technology to Haemonetics out of Braintree, Massachusetts to develop it into a practical method of performing highly sensitive ...