Researchers find essential proteins for critical stage of malaria
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute (JHMRI) have identified the molecular components that enable the malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium to infect the salivary glands of the...
View ArticleKomodo even more deadly than thought: Research
The carnivorous reptiles (Varanus komodoensis) are known to bite prey and release them, leaving them to bleed to death from their wounds: the victims are reported to go into shock before the dragons...
View ArticleVenomous bite: Harmless digestive enzyme evolved into venom in two species
(PhysOrg.com) -- Biologists have shown that independent but similar molecular changes turned a harmless digestive enzyme into a toxin in two unrelated species -- a shrew and a lizard -- giving each a...
View ArticleWatching Lyme disease-causing microbes move in ticks
Lyme disease is caused by the microbe Borrelia burgdorferi, which is transmitted to humans from feeding ticks.
View ArticleSmall details between 'in vivo' and 'in vitro' studies make for big differences
Small details between "in vivo" and "in vitro" studies make for big differences in understanding diabetes and other secretory dysfunctions
View ArticleDelivering a virus that gets rid of house flies
The house fly is often considered merely a nuisance. But these flies are capable of transmitting animal and human pathogens that can lead to foodborne diseases, including Escherichia coli, Salmonella,...
View ArticleParasite helps itself to sugar
Trypanosoma brucei, the parasite that causes sleeping sickness, is transmitted to mammals by the tsetse fly, and must adapt to the divergent metabolisms of its hosts. A new study shows how it copes...
View ArticleAnother beautiful helix for biology, this time reminiscent of a parking garage
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is the protein-making factory within cells consisting of tightly stacked sheets of membrane studded with the molecules that make proteins. In a study published July 18th...
View ArticleHow the snake got its venom
The venom of advanced snakes is a mixture of dozens of different proteins and is an example of an evolutionary innovation – a novel trait that has arisen in a particular animal group and which has...
View ArticleSilkworms fed carbon nanotubes or graphene produce stronger silk
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers at Tsinghua University in China has found that adding graphene or carbon nanotubes to the food eaten by silkworms causes them to produce silk that is stronger than...
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