01/05/2009
African Thicket Rat Malaria Linked To Virulent Human Form (Science Daily)
Malarial parasites found in tree-dwelling African thicket rats share a close evolutionary relationship with Plasmodium falciparum and P. reichenowi. The analysis is based on amplification of entire mitochondrial genomes of malarial parasites that use humans, rodents, birds and lizards as their hosts.
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12/29/2008
African Thicket Rat Malaria Linked To Virulent Human Form (Medical News Today)
Even though the most deadly form of malaria for humans, Plasmodium falciparum, has been linked to malaria found in chimpanzees, this group has been fairly isolated on the malarial family tree - until now.
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12/22/2008
African thicket rat malaria linked to virulent human form (PhysOrg)
Even though the most deadly form of malaria for humans, Plasmodium falciparum, has been linked to malaria found in chimpanzees, this group has been fairly isolated on the malarial family tree—until now. A new phylogenetic analysis from the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics at the American Museum of Natural History reveals that malarial parasites found in tree-dwelling rats share a close ...
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12/19/2008
Journal requires peer-reviewed Wikipedia entry to publish (Ars Technica)
A scientific journal that specializes in RNA molecules is requiring any authors that submit a specific type of paper also prepare an additional document for peer review: a Wikipedia page summarizing the paper. Read More...
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12/17/2008
Extreme Convergence In Stick Insect Evolution: Phylogenetic Placement Of The Lord Howe Island Tree Lobster (Medical News Today)
The Lord Howe Island Tree Lobster, Dryococelus australis, was thought to be extinct for decades until an exceedingly small population was recently rediscovered on a rocky islet in the South Pacific. "Tree lobsters" are large ground-dwelling stick insects restricted to New Guinea, New Caledonia and Lord Howe Island.
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12/17/2008
Crown closes case in Aziga HIV trial (Hamilton Spectator)
The Crown has finished presenting its evidence against accused HIV-killer Johnson Aziga, but the defence will not open its case until the new year. Superior Court Justice Thomas Lofchik yesterday released the jurors, nine men and three women, for a Christmas recess.
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12/16/2008
Putting Evolution to Use in the Everyday World (Scientific American)
Charles Darwin surely had no clue of the technological advances that his studies of beetles and birds would unleash. Our progress in comprehending the history and mechanisms of evolution has led to powerful applications that shape a wide variety of fields today. For instance--as the CSI franchise of television shows has popularized--law-enforcement agencies now commonly use evolutionary ...
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12/16/2008
AIDS profile not unique to victims, expert agrees (Hamilton Spectator)
The lawyer defending Johnson Aziga on two murder charges and allegations of recklessly transmitting the virus that causes AIDS has challenged the methodology used by a research scientist who places Aziga at the centre of an unique HIV-infection cluster in Hamilton.
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12/13/2008
Aziga, lovers share HIV type (Hamilton Spectator)
The top research scientist with the Public Health Agency of Canada's national HIV laboratory says Johnson Aziga and seven women he is alleged to have infected share a common source of the human immunodeficiency virus, one that is genetically similar or nearly identical to Aziga's.
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12/11/2008
Police given Aziga's blood despite error (Hamilton Spectator)
Ontario's central public health laboratory handed over a sample of Johnson Aziga's blood to police, despite a glaring error on the face of the search warrant.
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