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Professor Leah Cowen has been named the University of Toronto’s vice-president, research and innovation, and strategic initiatives.

Study reveals new lineage of tuberculosis-causing bacteria in the eastern part of the continent Mireia Coscollá, a researcher at the Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio), a joint centre of the University of Valencia and the Spanish National Research Council, has led a study on the bacterium that causes tuberculosis, one of the 10 deadliest diseases in the world, which proves the existence of a new lineage. After analysing 675 African genomes in an article published in the journal Microbial Genomics, he concludes that the new lineage, named L9, is located mainly in the eastern...

IDbyDNA Shares Insights on Role of Metagenomics for Tracking COVID-19 on New Illumina Podcast Share Article Metagenomics Innovator Featured on New Series about Role of Genomics for Managing Global Pandemics Medicine is on the cusp of the most dramatic change in infectious disease work since the discovery of antibiotics. SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) April 09, 2021 Today, IDbyDNA, the company revolutionizing the use of metagenomics to improve health by decoding the unknown, is being featured on two episodes of the new Illumina, Inc. (Nas...

Horsetalk.co.nz International horse movements play role in spread of strangles, researchers find Share A two-year-old Shetland pony with strangles. His first symptom was a runny nose. He then developed a fever, and swelling to the right side of his face. This is a side view before the abscesses burst. ©AkaEmma, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The latest DNA sequencing techniques have been used to track the bacteria responsible for strangles in horses around the world, in the largest study of its kind into the pathogen. Researchers said they identified many examples of closely r...

Strangles, caused by the bacteria  Streptococcus equi, is the most frequently diagnosed infectious disease of horses, with 600 outbreaks estimated to occur in the United Kingdom each year. Streptococcus equi invades the lymph nodes of head and neck of horses, causing them to swell and form abscesses that can, in around 2% of cases, literally strangle the horse to death. Some of the horses that recover from strangles remain persistently infected. These apparently healthy animals shed bacteria into the environment and spread the disease to other horses that they come into contact with. Using ...