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Animal infections occur when an agent invades a host animal's tissues where it replicates and releases toxins causing disease. Some animal infections, known as zoonotic diseases, can be transferred to humans.
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DEC 28, 2021Immunology
Ancylostoma caninum, a type of hookworm, attached to the intestinal mucosa. Image via Wikimedia Commons. Hookworms are b ...Written By: Tara FernandesDEC 26, 2021Plants & Animals
Malaria is a febrile disease spread by parasite-infected mosquitos, which causes flu-like symptoms that can often be dea ...Written By: Ryan VingumDEC 21, 2021Immunology
Sharks are incredibly hardy creatures—they've survived in marine ecosystems, often unchallenged predators, for ...Written By: Tara FernandesDEC 20, 2021Plants & Animals
We’re almost 2 years into the COVID-19 pandemic, and we’ve learned a lot about how the virus works. This und ...Written By: Ryan VingumDEC 14, 2021Immunology
The eyes may be the windows to the soul, but they are also vulnerable access points for environmental pathogens. What&rs ...Written By: Tara FernandesDEC 09, 2021Immunology
Scientists have developed a special chewing gum that could reduce the risk of spreading SARS-CoV-2. The technology was d ...Written By: Tara FernandesDEC 07, 2021Microbiology
The human microbiome is closely connected to our immune system. Our bodies have to be able to keep the bacterial populat ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 06, 2021Cannabis Sciences
Cannabis cultivation has embraced tissue culture due to this approach’s many advantages. Tissue culture cultivatio ...Written By: Kerry CharronDEC 06, 2021Microbiology
As pathogenic bacteria continue to evolve and find ways to evade common medications, researchers have been racing to dev ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 05, 2021Microbiology
Ticks that carry Lyme disease can be found in more and more places. If a tick is infected with the bacterium that causes ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 03, 2021Genetics & Genomics
The gene editing tool CRISPR was originally inspired by an immune defense system used by bacteria, and it's been adapted ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 02, 2021Immunology
Yale University researchers have developed an mRNA vaccine against ticks that could help prevent Lyme disease. This is a ...Written By: Tara FernandesNOV 25, 2021Immunology
Instead of flooding the body with antibiotics, what if we could program cells to fight off pathogens more effectively? T ...Written By: Tara FernandesNOV 24, 2021Plants & Animals
Vaccines to combat the COVID-19 pandemic have been available for sometime, and have proved highly effective in preventin ...Written By: Ryan VingumNOV 23, 2021Immunology
Work by University at Buffalo researchers has identified a link between obesity and gum disease. As gum disease escalate ...Written By: Tara FernandesNOV 23, 2021Microbiology
When the parasite Plasmodium falciparium is transmitted from mosquitoes to humans, it causes malaria. So what does it do ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 22, 2021Plants & Animals
African lungfish are incredible animals that survive in freshwater or on land. Research on lungfish has taught us more a ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 22, 2021Health & Medicine
The cornea is among the essential anatomic features of the eye, responsible for most of the eye’s focusing ability ...Written By: Christopher DiMaioNOV 21, 2021Microbiology
Zoonosis is a serious health concern, as the COVID-19 pandemic has shown. Viruses that infect one species can acquire ge ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 17, 2021Technology
The textbook symptoms of COVID-19 infection are often respiratory ones; at least, that’s what most people focus on ...Written By: Ryan VingumNOV 11, 2021Microbiology
While many people are most familiar with the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, which is called SARS-CoV-2, there are man ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 09, 2021Microbiology
You may have heard of Toxoplasma gondii because it is so common. Cats carry this parasite, and anyone that cleans a litt ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 05, 2021Microbiology
Malaria is the most common infectious disease in the world, and infected over 225 million people in 2019 according to th ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 03, 2021Plants & Animals
To the people of Samoa, the medicinal qualities of a tree known as matalafi are well known. Now scientists are bringing ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
DEC 28, 2021
Immunology
Ancylostoma caninum, a type of hookworm, attached to the intestinal mucosa. Image via Wikimedia Commons. Hookworms are b
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
DEC 26, 2021
Plants & Animals
Malaria is a febrile disease spread by parasite-infected mosquitos, which causes flu-like symptoms that can often be dea
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
DEC 21, 2021
Immunology
Sharks are incredibly hardy creatures—they've survived in marine ecosystems, often unchallenged predators, for
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
DEC 20, 2021
Plants & Animals
We’re almost 2 years into the COVID-19 pandemic, and we’ve learned a lot about how the virus works. This und
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
DEC 14, 2021
Immunology
The eyes may be the windows to the soul, but they are also vulnerable access points for environmental pathogens. What&rs
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
DEC 09, 2021
Immunology
Scientists have developed a special chewing gum that could reduce the risk of spreading SARS-CoV-2. The technology was d
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
DEC 07, 2021
Microbiology
The human microbiome is closely connected to our immune system. Our bodies have to be able to keep the bacterial populat
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 06, 2021
Cannabis Sciences
Cannabis cultivation has embraced tissue culture due to this approach’s many advantages. Tissue culture cultivatio
...
Written By:
Kerry Charron
DEC 06, 2021
Microbiology
As pathogenic bacteria continue to evolve and find ways to evade common medications, researchers have been racing to dev
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 05, 2021
Microbiology
Ticks that carry Lyme disease can be found in more and more places. If a tick is infected with the bacterium that causes
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 03, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
The gene editing tool CRISPR was originally inspired by an immune defense system used by bacteria, and it's been adapted
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 02, 2021
Immunology
Yale University researchers have developed an mRNA vaccine against ticks that could help prevent Lyme disease. This is a
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
NOV 25, 2021
Immunology
Instead of flooding the body with antibiotics, what if we could program cells to fight off pathogens more effectively? T
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
NOV 24, 2021
Plants & Animals
Vaccines to combat the COVID-19 pandemic have been available for sometime, and have proved highly effective in preventin
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
NOV 23, 2021
Immunology
Work by University at Buffalo researchers has identified a link between obesity and gum disease. As gum disease escalate
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
NOV 23, 2021
Microbiology
When the parasite Plasmodium falciparium is transmitted from mosquitoes to humans, it causes malaria. So what does it do
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 22, 2021
Plants & Animals
African lungfish are incredible animals that survive in freshwater or on land. Research on lungfish has taught us more a
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 22, 2021
Health & Medicine
The cornea is among the essential anatomic features of the eye, responsible for most of the eye’s focusing ability
...
Written By:
Christopher DiMaio
NOV 21, 2021
Microbiology
Zoonosis is a serious health concern, as the COVID-19 pandemic has shown. Viruses that infect one species can acquire ge
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 17, 2021
Technology
The textbook symptoms of COVID-19 infection are often respiratory ones; at least, that’s what most people focus on
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
NOV 11, 2021
Microbiology
While many people are most familiar with the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, which is called SARS-CoV-2, there are man
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 09, 2021
Microbiology
You may have heard of Toxoplasma gondii because it is so common. Cats carry this parasite, and anyone that cleans a litt
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 05, 2021
Microbiology
Malaria is the most common infectious disease in the world, and infected over 225 million people in 2019 according to th
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 03, 2021
Plants & Animals
To the people of Samoa, the medicinal qualities of a tree known as matalafi are well known. Now scientists are bringing
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch