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  Read Time: In the largest ever study of its kind into an equine pathogen, which was published today in the journal Microbial Genomics, scientists in 18 countries used the latest DNA sequencing techniques to track the bacteria Streptococcus equi as it caused the disease strangles in horses around the world. Strangles, caused by Streptococcus equi, is the most frequently diagnosed infectious disease of horses, with 600 outbreaks estimated to occur in the United Kingdom each year. Streptoc...

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) February 08, 2021 -- Today, IDbyDNA, the company revolutionizing the use of metagenomics to improve health by decoding the unknown,

 E-Mail IMAGE: Each spore contains hundreds of nuclei. The image was generated using confocal microscopy. The bright spots within the spores represent nuclei labelled with fluorescent dye. Images are colour coded along... view more  Credit: University of Ottawa/ Microscope Laboratory (Ottawa-RDC, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada) Researchers from the University of Ottawa have discovered that plants may be able to control the genetics of their intimate root symbionts - the organism wit...

Prof. Sukla is at present research professor in Multi-Disciplinary Research Cell, Siksha O Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar, India. He has worked as Chief Scientist and is heading the Bioresources Engineering Department in CSIR-IMMT, Bhubaneswar, India. He has more than 40 years of R&D experience in the area of Bio-mineral Processing, Hydrometallurgy, Algal biotechnology and has contributed over 176 research articles in International & National Journals in the area of biological science and o...

Julie Segre Delivers the Anita Roberts Lecture BY SUNITA CHOPRA, NCI We often associate microbes with disease. But the Human Microbiome Project has shown that people live in a mutually beneficial relationship with trillions of microbes on and in their bodies. Human diseases affecting the mouth (cavities) and gastrointestinal tract (inflammatory bowel disease) as well as more complex diseases such as premature birth or type 2 diabetes are associated with alterations in the microbiome. And now, c...

Covid-19 project receives government funding to expand globally Supercomputing facilities set up to track the spread and evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic have received £1.2M in government funding to expand globally. The grant is part of a major £213M investment by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to upgrade the UKs scientific infrastructure. The new funding will enable the CLIMB COVID-19 project, led by the University of Birmingham and Cardiff University, to carry out significant upgrades ...

University of Birmingham: Covid-19 genome sequencing project gets £1.2M in government funding Supercomputing facilities set up to track the spread and evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic have received £1.2M in government funding to expand globally. The grant is part of a major £213M investment by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to upgrade the UK’s scientific infrastructure. The new funding will enable the CLIMB COVID-19 project, led by the University of Birmingham and Cardiff Universit...

A new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19, is thought to be driving increased transmission of the disease in parts of the UK.

Updated Dec 23, 2020 | 10:17 IST The new strain has been named VUI-202012/01 (the first "Variant Under Investigation" in December 2020) and is defined by a set of 17 changes or mutations. The new strain of coronavirus likely evolved in the UK&nbsp | &nbspPhoto Credit:&nbspiStock Images New Delhi: The new strain of the Covid-19 virus which is said to be more infectious is likely to have evolved in the UK. Nick Loman, Professor of Microbial Genomics and Bio information at t...

Prof. Ravindra Gupta of Cambridge University, one of the top scientists working on the worrying new mutant strain of the coronavirus, has said: “This virus is potentially on a pathway for vaccine escape, it has taken the first couple of steps towards that.” The BBC, to whom Gupta gave an interview, explained: “Vaccine escape happens when the virus changes so it dodges the full effect of the vaccine and continues to infect people. This may be the most concerning element of what is happenin...