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Tag Archives: Disease
What is CRISPR-Cas?
CRISPR-Cas is making headlines as a powerful new gene editing tool that could change the whole of biology. Scientists are already using CRISPR to introduce genes for disease resistance into crops, insert malaria blocking genes into mosquitoes, and remove HIV … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical and Medical Microbiology, Technology, Video
Tagged Cas, CRISPR, CRISPR-Cas, Disease, DNA, gene editing, genetics, stop motion
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An emerging fungal disease is killing snakes in the US
Ophidiomyces ophidiicola is an emerging pathogen that causes snake fungal disease, a potentially fatal infection spreading rapidly across North America. We spoke to microbiologist Dr Jeffrey Lorch about his recent work to identify the fungus causing the disease. For the … Continue reading
Posted in Emerging Diseases, Mycology
Tagged conservation, Disease, fungal, Fungus, keratin, Ophidiomyces ophidiicola, SFD, snake, snake fungal disease
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Ash dieback disease: A plague on our ashes
Ash dieback is expected to kill millions of Britain’s ash trees over the next ten years. Caused by a fungus, Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, the disease kills trees by spreading through the branches and strangling the vascular system. Dr Anne Edwards and Prof … Continue reading
Posted in Emerging Diseases, Environmental Microbiology, Video
Tagged ash, cholera, dieback, Disease, Fungus, hymenoscyphus fraxineus, Mushrooms, spores, tolerance, trees, woodland
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World Leprosy Day 2015
Leprosy is among the oldest human-specific infections we currently know about. The common ancestor of the two modern bacterial species that cause leprosy, Mycobacterium leprae and M. lepromatosis, is thought to have become a parasite in early humans millions of … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical and Medical Microbiology, Epidemiology
Tagged Developing Countries, Disease, Leprosy
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World Polio Day 2014
24 October is World Polio Day, an event that aims to raise awareness of the continuing threat of polio to children in some parts of the world. A global effort to eradicate the disease has been ongoing for 26 years, … Continue reading
Posted in Epidemiology, Events
Tagged Disease, Global Health, Polio, Poliomyelitis, Public Health, Vaccination, world health organization, World Polio Day 2014
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