In a new perspective, scientists propose a different way of thinking about sickness symptoms: what if these behaviors are part of an integrated immune strategy that operates across scales — from individual cells to tissues and organs, to the whole organism — and helps promote survival?
A new experimental study has identified a novel genetic locus in a common agricultural weed that provides significant resistance to Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) and has now been successfully transferred into wheat to produce FHB resistant hybrids.
Undernutrition is the single greatest modifiable risk factor for tuberculosis (TB). Researchers found that providing food baskets to people with TB and their households may save tens of thousands of lives annually in India if implemented at scale.
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A review demonstrates that scientists can now reliably build and combine very large pieces of DNA, making it much easier to redesign microbes such as yeast and bacteria to act as efficient “cell factories.”
Scientists published their computational-experimental framework for developing quaternary ammonium compounds, or QACs, to kill bacteria. The method yielded 11 new QACs that show activity against antimicrobial-resistant bacteria.
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