Whilst preparing for the comprehension exam - which I sat yesterday, and which went well - I referred to this piece I wrote in March last year, about a genetic method which employs a modified rabies virus for labelling all...
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Posted on May 17, 2008 6:49 AM • 3 Comments •
Over the past few days, there have been numerous scary news stories about a "brain-eating" amoeba that has killed six boys and young men this year (three in Florida, two in Texas and one in Arizona, the most recent case...
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Posted on September 29, 2007 8:46 AM • 15 Comments •
A significant proportion of people with HIV/ AIDS develop neurological symptoms, such as impaired co-ordination, personality changes, deficits in learning and memory, and mania and depression. HIV-associated dementia is difficult to treat; although highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART) has led...
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Posted on August 22, 2007 11:48 AM • 0 Comments •
(From the Gilbert Lab at the University of Texas) This carpenter ant (genus Campanotus), and the bullet ant in the first film clip below (Paraponera clavata), have fallen victim to parasitic fungi of the genus Cordyceps, which manipulate the...
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Posted on August 9, 2007 5:55 PM • 10 Comments •
From the BBC: Microbes locked in Antarctic ice for as much as eight million years have been "resuscitated" in a laboratory. Researchers melted five samples of ice from the debris-covered glaciers of Antarctica which range in age from 100,000...
Posted on August 7, 2007 7:57 PM • 0 Comments •
