Microbiology

Mimivirus Mystery- 'Missing Link' Between Viruses And Living Cells?

An international team of researchers has determined key structural features of the largest known virus-the mimivirus, called by some a possible "missing link" between viruses and living cells. It was discovered accidentally by French scientists i ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 28 2009 - 10:11am

Get To Know H1N1 Swine Flu- And What Makes Influenza A So Nasty

If you haven't heard of swine flu- Influenza A H1N1- by now... well, you have unless you can't read, which means you aren't on this website.   Reading too many popular media articles may have led you to believe there's an epidemic on yo ...

Article - Hayley Mann - May 4 2009 - 11:45pm

SARS to Swine flu (H1N1) in the present Global Recession

SARS- severe acute respiratory syndrome ...

Blog Post - Zeea Hasan - Apr 29 2009 - 3:58am

What Regulates MicroRNAs? Touch, It Seems

MicroRNAs are single-stranded snippets that, not long ago, were given short shrift as genetic junk. Now that studies have shown they regulate genes involved in normal functioning as well as diseases such as cancer, everyone wants to know: What regulates mi ...

Article - News Staff - May 2 2009 - 11:08am

Microbial Ocean Study Reels In RNA Surprise

To study small RNA, snippets of RNA that act as switches to regulate gene expression in single-celled creatures, you need lab-cultured microorganisms but a new method of obtaining marine microbe samples while preserving the microbes' natural gene expr ...

Article - News Staff - May 13 2009 - 8:41pm

One in a hundred

The swine flu is spreading silently and slowly throughout the World, but it does not make headlines any more-or not yet again, at least. So far, a total of 8565 cases have been reported in five continents, and 73 people have died of it. The last death repo ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - May 18 2009 - 6:16am

Congenital Generalized Hypertrichosis Terminalis- Why The Bearded Lady Was Bearded

New research provides exciting genetic insight into a rare syndrome that first appeared in the medical literature in the mid 1800s with the case of Julia Pastrana, the world's most notorious bearded lady. The study, published by Cell Press in the May ...

Article - News Staff - May 21 2009 - 11:27pm

Reproducing Without The Genes For Reproduction

How do you reproduce when you lack the genes for reproduction?   Duke University Medical Center researchers want to know also because that can tell a lot about how yeast infections occur.   In a paper published in Nature, Joseph Heitman, M.D., Ph.D., direc ...

Article - News Staff - May 24 2009 - 1:00pm

It's A Jungle Out There! (And By 'There' I Mean Your Skin)

On the drive home yesterday afternoon I heard a fascinating story on NPR about an ecosystem near and dear to all humans- our skin. Even if bacteria aren't your thing, the story and the findings are really interesting (and actually could be applicable ...

Article - Becky Jungbauer - May 29 2009 - 1:18pm

Any opinions on whether this kind of data is qualified for publication in Nature Medicine?

Swine flu is a hot topic for many health care related professionals. However, the receptors specific for human, swine or avian influenza viruses are still unclear, because that conflicting results have been published in top scientific journals. ...

Blog Post - Hong Zhang - Jun 1 2009 - 5:47pm