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Microsoft is spending approximately $9 billion on research and development per year, and some of this money went to exploring a strategy which involves curing diseases by infecting patients with altered parasites. The Redmond company even filed for a patent, titled “Adapting Parasites to Combat Disease,”... |
25 January 2011
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A new research carried out by biologists at Emory University, concluded that monarch butterflies use medicinal plants to treat their offspring for disease.Monarch butterflies migrate each year from the United States to Mexico and offer spectacular images with the black, white and orange pattern of their wings.Like fo... |
11 October 2010
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Prophylactic treatment with safe, affordable antibiotics in people that live in areas with moderate to high malaria transmission, triggers a memory immune response inside the body that recognizes and destroys future malaria infections when antibiotics are no longer administrated.A new study carried out by an internat... |
12 August 2010
05:19 GMT |
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A new study carried out at the University of California involving a parasitic plant known as the dodder vine, now shows that this plant is not only able to consume the water and the nutrients of the host, but it can also tap into the communication system of the latter and use it to gather information for its own purp... |
1 August 2008
04:35 GMT |
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The mystery behind the massive decline in the wild bee populations in North America can be explained through the spread of diseases from commercially bred species, which appear to escape from greenhouses that are used to grow crops, such as tomatoes, bell peppers and cucumbers, said researchers yesterday. Commerciall... |
23 July 2008
05:31 GMT |
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Two thousands years ago, Plutarch said that the cuckoo was transforming into a hawk. You just have to look at a cuckoo and a sparrowhawk side by side, and you will positively be smitten by the resemblance between the two in terms of plumage, size and posture. Of course, cuckoos have nothing to do with raptors, but th... |
15 May 2008
04:17 GMT |
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Many males have a bad life. We use to say that the male is an appendix of the penis. In octopuses and other cephalopods, the contact of the female with the male is made only with his penis (hectocotylus, represented by the male's eighth arm). In other species, like spiders or praying mantises, males starts to be... |
16 February 2008
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The human body functions based on the activity of about 35,000 genes, comprised in 3 billion DNA bases. And even the bacteria needs hundreds of genes to cope with their metabolic functions. But there must be an extreme of functioning genes into an organism at which life is possible. German researchers discovered in 2... |
13 December 2007
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1. In Eastern Europe and Italy, mushroom harvesting is a tradition, and the annual number of intoxication cases and deaths is high. Dishes based on wild mushrooms are something common, but there are about 250 species of toxic mushrooms growing in Europe. The most dangerous are death cap (Amanita phalloides) and destr... |
3 December 2007
14:16 GMT |
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We proud ourselves with the latest technological achievements, the performances of the latest computers, or newly discovered galaxies and black holes, but in the XXIst century, there are still infections against which we are defenseless and which, with all the medical advances, keep on killing millions of people ever... |
12 November 2007
14:06 GMT |
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A fetus is like a strange organism living inside the woman's womb. The fetus develops the placenta, a special organ for sucking food and oxygen from the mother. But the placenta, like the fetus, has a different DNA from that of the mother, and the body generally attacks parasites and foreign bodies using all the... |
12 November 2007
04:06 GMT |
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When this child was born in Bihar (northern India), many villagers regarded her as the reincarnation of the four-armed Hindu goddess of wealth, Lakshmi. And the girl received this name, Lakshmi.But Lakshmi Tatma is not a supernatural being; on the contrary, she was born with a headless, undeveloped parasitic twin joi... |
7 November 2007
14:06 GMT |
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You fertilize a plantation to grow bigger and have more fruits, tubers, leaves and so on. But frogs around get "fertilized" too, developing horrific deformities. Nitrogen and phosphorus from fertilizers and animal waste leaking into lakes and ponds are the cause of this phenomenon. They boost the populations of a par... |
28 September 2007
06:12 GMT |
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There are freaks paying big sums of money for silicon injections that allegedly help them develop huge genitalia. Some got it naturally, cost-free and really unwittingly. It's about elephant people, patients with elephantiasis, a parasite disease induced by worms called filariasis, that block the lymphatic vesse... |
24 September 2007
06:07 GMT |
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1. Elephant people. Elephantiasis is a parasite disease caused by worms called filariasis, that block the lymphatic vessels. When the lymph vessels cannot be drained, the accumulated liquid induces changes into the surrounding tissues translated into grossly enlarged or swollen arms, legs, breasts and genitalia. Ther... |
15 September 2007
13:16 GMT |
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Not only worms can be parasites. But stars, too. A pulsar (dead spinning star) has been discovered swallowing material from its companion star, dwindling it until the latter becomes an object smaller than many common planets."This object is merely the skeleton of a star. The pulsar has eaten away the star's oute... |
13 September 2007
02:44 GMT |
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These are the strangest females invented by nature. But they do not ruin the life of their own males but ours. Mosquitoes are insects of the Order Diptera (thus related with the flies, even "mosquito" is a Spanish word meaning "little fly"), suborder Nematocera ("with thin antennae") and belong to the Culicidae famil... |
8 August 2007
14:06 GMT |
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If you're going to travel to the Amazon area, you could be taken by surprise by the fact that it's not piranha the one that causes dread amongst locals. Nor the terrible electric eel, or other monstrous fishes or the powerful black cayman. The real fear of bathing into the river is caused by a fish not long... |
18 July 2007
14:26 GMT |
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Which is the world's largest living organism? You will be tempted to say something you can see. Like the blue whale in the case of animals or the sequoia tree when it comes to plants. But you're wrong: it is something you do not even see, but it slowly grows by millennia. It's an enormous tree killer n... |
11 June 2007
06:39 GMT |
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We know that parasites are the bad guys that trigger diseases. Some are lethal, like malaria, others just decrease fitness (like gut worms). Those attacking the sexual apparatus affect fertility. Wolbachia is a bacterium encountered in over 20 % of all insects and known to decrease female fertility. But a new resear... |
27 April 2007
03:43 GMT |
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Parasite Eve is like a survival horror with many RPG elements, but the movement in the various environments is free. Movement in the "world map" (which is a map of Manhattan) is limited to specific destinations. Upon the player walking over a "hot spot," they enter battle mode. Enemies materialize suddenly and though... |
13 April 2007
03:46 GMT |
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In some western African villages, most of the elders die blind. This is the result of onchocerciasis or river blindness provoked by the female black flies (Simulium) which transmit the disease through their bite. These flies reproduce in the fast flowing rivers. Fortunately, river blindness is not so easy to catch li... |
14 March 2007
12:01 GMT |
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