Search Results for 'Bugs'

Early warning alerts our cells against invading bugs

Like sensors in a bank vault, our cells too have their own early-warning system for intruders: deadly pathogens and viruses waiting to attack and infect us. Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Lab (EMBL) in Grenoble, France, h [...]

Posted On : Oct, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Gene clue to how superbugs attack

More than 20 genes which help the superbug attack the human body have been identified, including one that may be a focus for future drug development. The work, in BMC Systems Biology, was carried out by Medical Research Council researcher [...]

Posted On : May, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Let children collect bugs again to boost interest in science...

Sir David Attenborough fears children's interest in science is being stifled by laws restricting them from collecting flowers, insects and fossils. Bars on taking items from the countryside mean they no longer learn about identi [...]

Posted On : Mar, 29 2010 | Comments : 0

Scientists turn DNA detectives to track spread of hospital s...

The genetic fingerprints of germs are to be mapped to open a new front in the battle against hospital superbugs. Scientists have embarked on an ambitious project to read the complete genetic codes of pathogens taken from hundreds of people. [...]

Posted On : Jan, 04 2010 | Comments : 0

Gassy bugs

Microbes deep under the ocean's floor could be the source of some ethane and propane found in sediments, researchers reported. Analysis of the gases trapped in ancient minerals suggested that methane-generating microbes have been around al [...]