Posts Tagged ‘infections’
Earth & Environment - Sep 22, 2009 11:21 - 2 Comments
In the tropics, outbreak and changing landscape
PENN STATE (US)—An international team of researchers is in Ghana as part of a five-year effort to investigate how changes in the environment affect a deforming tropical disease called Buruli ulcer. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Sep 16, 2009 4:00 - 3 Comments
Clip offers newborns a healthy start
A team of bioengineers has developed the SafeSnip device, shown at center, that could help save lives in regions where home births are common and infants are susceptible to infections caused by unsanitary conditions. (Credit: Paula Burch-Celentano)
Earth & Environment - Aug 18, 2009 4:00 - 0 Comments
Clues to bee collapse raise questions
“While the study’s results don’t indicate a specific cause of CCD, the results do help scientists narrow the direction of future CCD research by showing that some possible causes are less likely,” says Jeff Pettis, an entomologist with the ARS Bee Research Laboratory. (Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons/http://commons.wikimedia.org)
Health & Medicine - May 13, 2009 15:28 - 0 Comments
Future vaccines may target fierce antibodies
PRINCETON (US)—Scientists may have found a better way to make a flu vaccine. Though theoretical, work at Princeton University takes a closer look at the poorly appreciated interaction between a virus and the antibodies that fight infection. (more…)
