Using X-Ray Vision, He Keeps His Eye on the Bacteria
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Dr. C. Erec Stebbins talks about using a nearly 100-year-old investigative tool to identify the bacterial proteins that cause disease.
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An antibiotic used to treat leprosy and tuberculosis is showing promise as a therapy for Parkinson's disease.
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Scientists have harnessed the body's own natural defences against infection to make a treatment for Alzheimer's disease.
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Hospitals across the Washington region are mounting increasingly aggressive defenses against a virulent bacterium resistant to antibiotics that turns seemingly minor skin abrasions, cuts and sores into serious, even life-threatening, infections.
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Pacific Bioscienceâs sequencer lets the DNA chain grow continuously and records a movie of flashing lights.
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In one young patient, unidentified stalkers seek out openings to attack the vision.
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For doctors, searching out disease before it appears can also carry risks.
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ONE more child at a Hong Kong hospital has fallen prey to the mysterious respiratory infection that has put the Special Administrative Region on &quot;green&quot; alert.
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A deadly bacteria that attacks the intestines of mainly elderly patients is showing up with more frequency at a handful of Ontario hospitals, Joshua Tepper, the Canadian province's acting chief medical officer of health, said on Tuesday.
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Scientists believe they may have found a new way to fight a potentially dangerous stomach infection.
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People with bowel ulcers could soon be topping up their "friendly" bacteria to beat their illness.
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Eye care specialist TLC draws eyes to the field of high-tech vision correction.
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Montreal health officials believe the deadly C-difficile bacterium is spreading from hospitals into the city. Dr. Sandra Dial says she was surprised to learn that two McGill students became infected with the superbug.
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A study suggests that a virulent drug-resistant bacterium spreading in hospitals and nursing homes may be twice as common as once thought.
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The pharmaceutical enlists help to thwart a troublesome illness.
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A bacterium closely related to bugs that cause gangrene, tetanus and food poisoning could help to beat cancer.
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Scientists believe they have found a target in the body that could stop gallstones from being formed.