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Fighting Microbes with Microbes
Amy Coombs | Jan 1, 2013 | 10 min read
Doctors turn to good microbes to fight disease. Will the same strategy work with crops?
Real-time Outbreak Sequencing
Dan Cossins | Dec 19, 2012 | 4 min read
Sequencing the whole genomes of bacterial pathogens as they spread among hospital patients and health care workers could transform the control of infectious disease.
American Chestnut to Rise Again
Dan Cossins | Oct 4, 2012 | 2 min read
The American chestnut tree, almost wiped out by a fungus from Asia, could soon be resurrected in blight-resistant form.
Bacterial Exploitation
Ruth Williams | Jul 5, 2012 | 3 min read
Field studies reveal non-virulent bacteria take advantage of their virulent counterparts to get a free pass into their host.
Memory Tools for Plants
Amy Coombs | Jun 4, 2012 | 2 min read
How plants pass defenses to offspring through a complex molecular network
Seeds Inherit Memories of Enemies
Amy Coombs | May 31, 2012 | 4 min read
Infested plants pass on a defense memory of pests and pathogens to help the next generation withstand invasions.
Infection Selection
Ruth Williams | Nov 13, 2011 | 2 min read
Scientists track changes in bacterial genomes during a hospital outbreak to discover potential pathogenesis genes.
The First Plant Interactome
Jessica P. Johnson | Jul 28, 2011 | 3 min read
Protein interaction networks in Arabidopsis give clues to plant evolution and immunity.
Virus Jumps Between Primates
Megan Scudellari | Jul 18, 2011 | 1 min read
In the first known case of a cross-species outbreak of an adenovirus, researchers identify a virus that infected both monkeys and humans.
Bigger spores = badder infection
Jef Akst | Jun 17, 2011 | 1 min read
Larger spores of a deadly fungal pathogen cause more virulent infections in mice.
Bats Might Be Origin of SARS
Charles Choi(cqchoi@nasw.org) | Sep 29, 2005 | 3 min read
Findings suggest winged mammals could spread SARS-like viruses across Asia, Australia and Europe
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