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Helper Bacterial Toxins

New insights into the mechanisms of action of Cry1Ab and Cry1Ac served as the basis for development of the modified Bt toxins

News and Analysis

An outbreak of a new animal virus that has been ongoing in mainland Europe since August 2011 has now reached the United Kingdom. Schmallenberg virus infects livestock, causing fever, loss of condition and reduced milk yield in cattle....]

Bacteria on 70% of Dental Bib-ers

researchers at the University of Witten/Herdecke in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany released a clinical study indicating that the sterilization protocol for dental bib holders is inconsistent and can result in the presence of germs, microorganisms and pseudomonas on bib chains and holders[...]

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New Fluorescence study on anthrax

anthrax lethal toxin is a binary bacterial toxin consisting of two proteins, protective antigen (PA) and lethal factor (LF), that self-assemble on receptor-bearing eukaryotic cells to form toxic, non-covalent complexes[...]

A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF FLAGELLA

The physical structure of the molecular motors responsible for the movement of both cilia and sperm flagella are very similar[...]

Wednesday 1 August 2012

New Influenza Virus from Seals

 A new strain of influenza virus found in harbor seals could represent a threat to wildlife and human health, according to the authors of a study appearing July 31 in mBio®, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology. It is crucial to monitor viruses like this one, which originated in birds and adapted to infect mammals, the authors say, so that scientists can better predict the emergence of new strains of influenza and prevent pandemics in the future.
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