People often think hippos are herbivores with big smiling faces. Every now and then, reports of a hippo of hunting down prey, eating a carcass, or stealing prey from a crocodile are heard, but they're typically considered ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 7, 2015
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These days, mail addressed to selected government offices gets irradiated, in order to kill any biological agents, notably anthrax spores. The downside of this is that viable spores have been needed to identify the anthrax ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 13, 2015
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Cultured human lung cells infected with a benign version of anthrax spores have yielded insights into how anthrax grows and spreads in exposed people. The study, published in the Journal of Applied Microbiology, will help ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 23, 2015
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Researchers at UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute have become the first to produce images of the atomic structures of three specific biological nanomachines, each derived from a different potentially deadly bacterium—an ...
Bio & Medicine
Apr 21, 2015
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A large team of researchers with members from around the globe has found that when anthrax kills an animal, the carcass left behind can cause more abundant spore-filled grass growth, enticing herbivores which help spread ...
Bacillus anthracis bacteria have very efficient machinery for injecting toxic proteins into cells, leading to the potentially deadly infection known as anthrax. A team of MIT researchers has now hijacked that delivery system ...
Biochemistry
Sep 25, 2014
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Tularemia, aka "rabbit fever," is endemic in the northeastern United States, and is considered to be a significant risk to biosecurity—much like anthrax or smallpox—because it has already been weaponized in various regions ...
Biochemistry
Feb 16, 2014
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From a zebra carcass on the plains of Namibia in Southern Africa, an international team of researchers has discovered a new, unusually large virus (or bacteriophage) that infects the bacterium that causes anthrax. The novel ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 27, 2014
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An anthrax infection can be fatal even when the infectious agent is no longer detected. Research carried out at EPFL reveals the way its lethal factor manages to turn invisible to the immune system.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 14, 2013
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A recent case of anthrax in a cow southwest of San Angelo confirmed by the Texas Animal Health Commission, should serve as a reminder to those in areas with a history of the disease to vaccinate their animals, said a Texas ...
Ecology
Nov 12, 2013
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