Smell Receptor Fuels Prostate Cancer Progression Blocking receptor with drugs or scents could be new approach to prostate cancer When scientists first described the receptors responsible for our sense of smell, they naturally...
AI Detects Patterns Of Gut Microbes for Cholera Risk A hundred kinds of microbes out of 4,000 determine susceptibility to cholera Researchers from Duke University, Massachusetts General Hospital and the International Centre...
Toenail Fungus Gives Up Sex to Infect Human Hosts Being a clone of itself may make it vulnerable to new treatments The fungus that causes athlete’s foot and other skin and toenail infections may have lost...
Microbe Scientists Launching Expanded Microbiome Center Shared technology and core facilities growing to meet demand Microbial science at Duke is taking a major step forward with the launch of the...
‘Hypermutators’ Drive Pathogenic Fungi to Evolve More Rapidly Fungus rapidly shrugs off challenge of anti-fungal drugs DURHAM, N.C. -- Mutations tend to get a bad rap, and deservedly so. A single defect in our DNA...
Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs May Fight Infectious Disease Typhoid, Ebola use cholesterol to enter cells That statin you’ve been taking to lower your risk of heart attack or stroke may one day...
Scientists Map Sex Chromosome Evolution in Fungi Gene swaps at the centromere had been thought impossible DURHAM, NC -- Biologically speaking, nearly every species on Earth has two opposite sexes, male...
New Vaccine Production Could Improve Flu Shot Accuracy Influenza Virus Prevented from Adapting to Chicken Egg Host DURHAM, N.C. -- A new way of producing the seasonal flu vaccine could speed up the process and...
