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...

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Tobacco Mosaic Virus possess something suicidal!!

http://images.sciencedaily.com/2012/07/120711134532.jpg A study led by Associate Prof. Kenji Nakahara at Hokkaido University in Japan has found　a component in tobacco that makes crop immune systems more resistant to viral attacks.Although crops have a general defense mechanism in order to fight against viruses, their invaders counteract this defense by suppressing the plant immune response. Evidence...

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Discover How Bacteria do Job on Your Intestinal wall to cause Cholera!!

http://images.sciencedaily.com/2012/07/120712144747.jpg A clever new imaging technique discovered at the University of California, Berkeley, reveals a possible plan of attack for many bacterial diseases, such as cholera, lung infections in cystic fibrosis patients and even chronic sinusitis, that form biofilms that make them resistant to antibiotics. Read More......

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The human body is essentially a "Germ Factory!!"

Germ theory delusions collapse as new science reveals healthy people carry 10,000 different germ strains at all times!A new study published as a series of reports in the journals Nature and Public Library of Science (PLoS) debunks...

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What Video Gamers have in Microbiology!!

Players of a 3D online computer game have provided the answer to a protein structure puzzle that could lead to new anti-retrovirus drugs. Read More... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8774220/Video-gamers-solve-microbiology-puzzle.html...

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Augmented 'Superdrugs' Could Wipe Out Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs

Researchers in Ireland believe they may have found a solution to the antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" that are increasingly stumping doctors: superdrugs.Over the past few months, the Centers for Disease Control and other medical experts have...

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Alert..Flesh-eating Bacteria is Back..

Mom stricken by flesh-eating bacteria slowly recovering....Necrotizing soft tissue infection is a rare but very severe type of bacterial infection. It can destroy the muscles, skin, and underlying tissue. The word "necrotizing" refers to something...

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