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Engineered oncolytic herpes virus inhibits ovarian and breast cancer metastases
Jan. 31, 2013 A genetically reprogrammed Herpes simplex virus (HSV) can cure metastatic diffusion of human cancer cells in the abdomen of laboratory mice, according to a new study published January 31 in the Open Access journal PLOS Pathogens
New insights into conquering influenza
Jan. 29, 2013 Researchers from the University of Melbourne and The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI) have discovered a new protein that protects against viral infections such as influenza. As influenza spreads through the northern hemisphere winter, Dr Linda Wakim and her colleagues in the Laboratory of Professor Jose Villadangos from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, believe they have a new clue to why some people fight infections better than others
Eczema in infants linked to gut bacteria
Jan. 21, 2013 Children with eczema have a more diverse set of bacteria in their guts than non affected children, finds a new study in BioMed Central’s open access journal BMC Microbiology.
Eczema in infants linked to gut bacteria
Jan. 21, 2013 Children with eczema have a more diverse set of bacteria in their guts than non affected children, finds a new study in BioMed Central’s open access journal BMC Microbiology. The types of bacteria present were also more typical of adult gut microbes than for toddlers without eczema
Rethinking bacterial persistence: Optofluidics allow for new understanding of resistance to antibiotics
Jan. 3, 2013 It’s often difficult to completely eliminate a bacterial infection with antibiotics; part of the population usually manages to survive
Plvap/PV1 critical to formation of the diaphragms in endothelial cells
Jan. 3, 2013 Dartmouth scientists have demonstrated the importance of the gene Plvap and the structures it forms in mammalian physiology in a study published in December by the journal Developmental Cell
Staphylococcus aureus: Why it just gets up your nose
Dec. 27, 2012 A collaboration between researchers at the School of Biochemistry and Immunology and the Department of Microbiology at Trinity College Dublin has identified a mechanism by which the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus ( S.
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