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Humans fostering forest-destroying disease
08-15-2007 · EurekAlert!Paradoxically, the spread of Sudden Oak Death -- a potentially catastrophic tree killing disease that first invaded California in the 1990s -- is being encouraged by human landscape management practices that have increased the size and density of west coast oak forests, according to a forthcoming study. Research shows that other human activities may be involved as well.
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11-28-2007 · EurekAlert!
Although malaria parasites have undergone extensive laboratory study, relatively little is known about how they behave in humans to cause disease. Newly published data from a study of malaria-infected human blood reveal two biological states of the parasite Plasmodium falciparum not observed under laboratory conditions. This information may help scientists develop new strategies for treating malaria.
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- Rhesus macaque genome may hold clues for human health and evolution
04-12-2007 · EurekAlert!
An international consortium of scientists has completed a draft sequence of the rhesus macaque genome, a species of non-human primate widely used for creating models of human diseases and infections. The study paves the way for researchers to watch disease progression at the genetic level in macaques, a close relative of humans. The findings, which appear April 13 in the journal Science, will let us learn how humans and other primates evolved into distinct species.
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05-21-2007 · EurekAlert!
Scientists often study mice as a model for human biology and disease, because their basic biological processes are assumed to be essentially the same as those of humans. But now, a team of MIT researchers has uncovered a surprising difference. In a study of gene regulation in mouse and human liver cells, they found that master regulatory proteins function in very different ways in mice and humans.
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05-01-2007 · EurekAlert!
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- Reprogrammed human adult stem cells rescue diseased muscle in mice
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- Dragonfly's metabolic disease provides clues about human obesity
11-20-2006 · EurekAlert!
Parasite-infected dragonflies suffer the same metabolic disorders that have led to an epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes in humans, according to research to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. The discovery expands the known taxonomic breadth of metabolic disease and suggests that the study of microbes found in human intestines may provide a greater understanding of the root causes of human metabolic dysfunction.
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10-08-2007 · EurekAlert!
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- New lab mice pave way for novel studies of human infection
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- New lab mice pave way for novel studies of human infections
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