Keeping parasites from sticking to mosquito guts could block disease transmission 07/30/2019 Health News, A group of microorganisms known as kinetoplastids includes the parasites that cause devastating diseases such...
Underwater forests a treasure trove of new drugs: Scientists recover dozens of antimicrobial and anticancer compounds from seaweed 04/09/2019 Health News, Defensive compounds produced by microbes are a major source of antibiotics and other important medicines....
Obesity surgery leads to emergence of new microbial strains in the human fecal community 01/08/2019 Health News, Using a unique bioinformatics technique developed at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, UAB researchers...
Not in the DNA: Epigenetics discovered in single-celled archaea: Discovery could accelerate study of epigenetics in humans, researchers say 12/03/2018 Health News, University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers have found revolutionary evidence that an evolutionary phenomenon at work in...
An end to arachnophobia ‘just a heartbeat away’ 10/31/2018 Health News, Researchers have discovered that exposing people with phobias to their fear -- for examples, spiders...
Scorpion census: Researchers update global record of medically significant scorpions 10/10/2018 Health News, Scorpions can be found at every corner of the globe and on six of the...