By Marian Turner of Nature magazine Germany aims to shorten the time it takes for information on infectious-disease outbreaks to reach federal authorities from up to 18 days to just three, after this year's outbreak of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli killed 53 people. [More]
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By Marian Turner of Nature magazine Engineered bacteria that can detect and kill human pathogens could provide a new way to treat antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Read More »Antibody That Binds to All Influenza A Viruses Could Lead to a Universal Flu Vaccine
By Marian Turner of Nature magazine Scientists have found an antibody that inactivates all influenza A subtypes. [More]
Read More »Big Donation Drives Effort to End Lab Tests on Dogs
By Marian Turner of Nature magazine Man's best friend bears a heavy burden in the pharmaceutical industry. [More]
Read More »Aerodynamic-Sensing Hairs on Wings Keep Bats Flying
By Marian Turner of Nature magazine Bats use tiny hairs to sense the speed and direction of air flowing over their wings.
Read More »Phage May Have Been Key to Europe’s Deadly E. Coli Outbreak
By Marian Turner of Nature magazine Women, beansprouts, cucumbers, bacteria, cows: the cast of the current European Escherichia coli outbreak is already a crowd. [More]
Read More »Stem Cells Repair Muscle Damaged by Heart Attack
By Marian Turner of Nature magazine Time might heal metaphorical heartbreak, but an injured heart can rarely repair itself. [More]
Read More »Microbe Outbreak Panics Europe
By Marian Turner of Nature magazine Munich Confronted with what has become one of the world's most severe outbreaks of Escherichia coli, physicians and scientists in Germany say that the country's fractured health-management system has failed to handle the crisis properly.
Read More »Childhood Stress Shortens Telomeres, Affecting Future Health
By Marian Turner of Nature magazine A long-term study of children from Romanian orphanages suggests that the effects of childhood stress could be visible in their DNA as they grow up.
Read More »The Evolutionary Tree of Fungi Grows a New Branch
By Marian Turner of Nature magazine When a research team started analyzing the genetics of micro-organisms from their university pond, they might have expected to find a couple of new species. [More]
Read More »Diamonds Deliver on Cancer Treatment
By Marian Turner Attaching chemotherapy drugs to small particles called nanodiamonds can make the drugs more effective, according to a study published this week in Science Translational Medicine . Anticancer drugs tend to become ineffective because cancer cells quickly pump them out before they have had time to do their work.
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