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Natural born killers.
This year, 30 million acres of the corn, cotton, and potatoes planted in the United States will have been genetically engineered to produce an endotoxin normally found in the microbe Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), a self-contained pesticide that will be toxic only to target insects. Transgenic pest-resistant crops are a cost-effective alternative to chemical pesticides, and may offer a way to hel...
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weight to a finding published a decade ago by the group at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital. That finding stated that patients with low TPMT activity receiving 6-MP in combination with radiotherapy have increased risk of SMNs.6 The paper leaves many questions unanswered. Whether this association is caused by 6-MP therapy alone or whether high-dose MTX given along with 6-MP in maintenance co...
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Although fungal infections contribute substantially to human morbidity and mortality, the impact of these diseases on human health is not widely appreciated. Moreover, despite the urgent need for efficient diagnostic tests and safe and effective new drugs and vaccines, research into the pathophysiology of human fungal infections lags behind that of diseases caused by other pathogens. In this Re...
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The bacteria that infect humans and cause cholera are themselves infected by viruses, which have the potential to influence the course of a cholera infection.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Trends in Parasitology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1471-4922
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2017.01.005