Medicine & TechnologyRelocating endangered species is one way of species conservation. But experts believe that conservationists might unknowingly be spreading pathogens between threatened animal populations.
A study reveals that disgust may be the way that the body protects itself from harmful bacteria or pathogens. Hence, the stomach gets upset at the smell of spiled food or at the sight of feces.
One of the longstanding puzzles in agricultural science is the supposed resistance of apples and cucumbers to the same pathogen that ravaged potatoes - and researchers might have found a way to turn nonhost resistance into an agricultural advantage.
Some strains of salmonella have found a way to evade plant defenses through the stomates of the leafy vegetables which protects them from the immune system of the plant and from being washed off by water.
If the battle of the sexes was fought by mosquitoes, it would already be over. Researchers from Virginia Tech's Fralin Life Science Institute has discovered that male mosquitoes aren't relevant at all, at least in the realm of transmissible diseases.