https://scienceblogs.com/ en https://scienceblogs.com/sb-admin/2025/12/19/spend-more-time-your-dog-christmas-151469 <span>Malaria and the Inner Armies</span> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ignacio_diez/7479609840/"><img class="alignleft" title="Plasmodium ovale by leboski" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8158/7479609840_fa58429bfe.jpg" alt width="600"></a>On ERV, Abbie Smith writes “Malaria kills 1.24 million people a year. Mostly babies under 5 years old.” Malaria, although carried by mosquitoes, is caused by a single-celled protist which infects the liver and goes on to parasitize red blood cells. Now, a little genetic engineering could put <a title="ERV" href="http://scienceblogs.com/erv/2012/07/18/gmo-bacteria-vs-malaria/">a stop to this scourge</a>. Smith says “Mosquitoes have a symbiotic relationship with their bacteria the same way we do—they need their ‘good’ bacteria to get all the nutrients they need to survive.” By tweaking the protein output of one such bacteria, scientists have made mosquito guts inhospitable to malaria. <a title="Life Lines" href="http://scienceblogs.com/lifelines/2012/07/18/malaria-fighting-bacteria/">The test result?</a> An 84% decrease in the number of mosquitoes carrying malaria, and a 98% reduction in malarial replication among carriers. Of course, mosquitoes aren’t the only animals that support friendly bacteria—and researchers at the Weizmann Institute are discovering that our friendly bacteria support a number of viruses. They identified <a title="The Weizmann Wave" href="http://scienceblogs.com/weizmann/2012/07/17/the-surprising-viruses-in-our-gut/">hundreds of different bacteriophages</a> “thanks to the fact that bacteria keep ‘files’ within their genome of every virus that has ever tried to attack them.” Some of these phages may confer benefits to our internal ecosystem. And humanity has 80% of them in common.</p> </div> <span><a title="View user profile." href="https://scienceblogs.com/author/milhayser" lang about="https://scienceblogs.com/author/milhayser" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype>milhayser</a></span> <span><time datetime="2012-07-30T03:35:13-04:00" title="Monday, July 30, 2012 - 03:35">Mon, 07/30/2012 - 03:35</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-blog-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field--label">Tags</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="https://scienceblogs.com/tag/malaria" hreflang="en">malaria</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="https://scienceblogs.com/tag/microflora" hreflang="en">Microflora</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="https://scienceblogs.com/tag/viruses" hreflang="en">viruses</a></div> </div> </div> <section> </section> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="comment-forbidden"></li></ul> Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:10:53 +0000 sb admin 151469 at https://scienceblogs.com https://scienceblogs.com/sb-admin/2020/06/30/opportunity-costs-and-why-fireworks-complaints-are-year-151451 <span>Malaria and the Inner Armies</span> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ignacio_diez/7479609840/"><img class="alignleft" title="Plasmodium ovale by leboski" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8158/7479609840_fa58429bfe.jpg" alt width="600"></a>On ERV, Abbie Smith writes “Malaria kills 1.24 million people a year. Mostly babies under 5 years old.” Malaria, although carried by mosquitoes, is caused by a single-celled protist which infects the liver and goes on to parasitize red blood cells. Now, a little genetic engineering could put <a title="ERV" href="http://scienceblogs.com/erv/2012/07/18/gmo-bacteria-vs-malaria/">a stop to this scourge</a>. Smith says “Mosquitoes have a symbiotic relationship with their bacteria the same way we do—they need their ‘good’ bacteria to get all the nutrients they need to survive.” By tweaking the protein output of one such bacteria, scientists have made mosquito guts inhospitable to malaria. <a title="Life Lines" href="http://scienceblogs.com/lifelines/2012/07/18/malaria-fighting-bacteria/">The test result?</a> An 84% decrease in the number of mosquitoes carrying malaria, and a 98% reduction in malarial replication among carriers. Of course, mosquitoes aren’t the only animals that support friendly bacteria—and researchers at the Weizmann Institute are discovering that our friendly bacteria support a number of viruses. They identified <a title="The Weizmann Wave" href="http://scienceblogs.com/weizmann/2012/07/17/the-surprising-viruses-in-our-gut/">hundreds of different bacteriophages</a> “thanks to the fact that bacteria keep ‘files’ within their genome of every virus that has ever tried to attack them.” Some of these phages may confer benefits to our internal ecosystem. And humanity has 80% of them in common.</p> </div> <span><a title="View user profile." href="https://scienceblogs.com/author/milhayser" lang about="https://scienceblogs.com/author/milhayser" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype>milhayser</a></span> <span><time datetime="2012-07-30T03:35:13-04:00" title="Monday, July 30, 2012 - 03:35">Mon, 07/30/2012 - 03:35</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-blog-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field--label">Tags</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="https://scienceblogs.com/tag/malaria" hreflang="en">malaria</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="https://scienceblogs.com/tag/microflora" hreflang="en">Microflora</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="https://scienceblogs.com/tag/viruses" hreflang="en">viruses</a></div> </div> </div> <section> </section> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="comment-forbidden"></li></ul> Tue, 30 Jun 2020 16:17:46 +0000 sb admin 151451 at https://scienceblogs.com https://scienceblogs.com/sb-admin/2020/03/30/virtual-communication-during-social-distancing-how-we-change-when-we-know-were <span>Malaria and the Inner Armies</span> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ignacio_diez/7479609840/"><img class="alignleft" title="Plasmodium ovale by leboski" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8158/7479609840_fa58429bfe.jpg" alt width="600"></a>On ERV, Abbie Smith writes “Malaria kills 1.24 million people a year. Mostly babies under 5 years old.” Malaria, although carried by mosquitoes, is caused by a single-celled protist which infects the liver and goes on to parasitize red blood cells. Now, a little genetic engineering could put <a title="ERV" href="http://scienceblogs.com/erv/2012/07/18/gmo-bacteria-vs-malaria/">a stop to this scourge</a>. Smith says “Mosquitoes have a symbiotic relationship with their bacteria the same way we do—they need their ‘good’ bacteria to get all the nutrients they need to survive.” By tweaking the protein output of one such bacteria, scientists have made mosquito guts inhospitable to malaria. <a title="Life Lines" href="http://scienceblogs.com/lifelines/2012/07/18/malaria-fighting-bacteria/">The test result?</a> An 84% decrease in the number of mosquitoes carrying malaria, and a 98% reduction in malarial replication among carriers. Of course, mosquitoes aren’t the only animals that support friendly bacteria—and researchers at the Weizmann Institute are discovering that our friendly bacteria support a number of viruses. They identified <a title="The Weizmann Wave" href="http://scienceblogs.com/weizmann/2012/07/17/the-surprising-viruses-in-our-gut/">hundreds of different bacteriophages</a> “thanks to the fact that bacteria keep ‘files’ within their genome of every virus that has ever tried to attack them.” Some of these phages may confer benefits to our internal ecosystem. And humanity has 80% of them in common.</p> </div> <span><a title="View user profile." href="https://scienceblogs.com/author/milhayser" lang about="https://scienceblogs.com/author/milhayser" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype>milhayser</a></span> <span><time datetime="2012-07-30T03:35:13-04:00" title="Monday, July 30, 2012 - 03:35">Mon, 07/30/2012 - 03:35</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-blog-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field--label">Tags</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="https://scienceblogs.com/tag/malaria" hreflang="en">malaria</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="https://scienceblogs.com/tag/microflora" hreflang="en">Microflora</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="https://scienceblogs.com/tag/viruses" hreflang="en">viruses</a></div> </div> </div> <section> </section> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="comment-forbidden"></li></ul> Mon, 30 Mar 2020 21:25:13 +0000 sb admin 151445 at https://scienceblogs.com https://scienceblogs.com/sb-admin/2020/02/07/fhr4-age-related-macular-degeneration-breakthrough-151439 <span>Malaria and the Inner Armies</span> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ignacio_diez/7479609840/"><img class="alignleft" title="Plasmodium ovale by leboski" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8158/7479609840_fa58429bfe.jpg" alt width="600"></a>On ERV, Abbie Smith writes “Malaria kills 1.24 million people a year. Mostly babies under 5 years old.” Malaria, although carried by mosquitoes, is caused by a single-celled protist which infects the liver and goes on to parasitize red blood cells. Now, a little genetic engineering could put <a title="ERV" href="http://scienceblogs.com/erv/2012/07/18/gmo-bacteria-vs-malaria/">a stop to this scourge</a>. Smith says “Mosquitoes have a symbiotic relationship with their bacteria the same way we do—they need their ‘good’ bacteria to get all the nutrients they need to survive.” By tweaking the protein output of one such bacteria, scientists have made mosquito guts inhospitable to malaria. <a title="Life Lines" href="http://scienceblogs.com/lifelines/2012/07/18/malaria-fighting-bacteria/">The test result?</a> An 84% decrease in the number of mosquitoes carrying malaria, and a 98% reduction in malarial replication among carriers. Of course, mosquitoes aren’t the only animals that support friendly bacteria—and researchers at the Weizmann Institute are discovering that our friendly bacteria support a number of viruses. They identified <a title="The Weizmann Wave" href="http://scienceblogs.com/weizmann/2012/07/17/the-surprising-viruses-in-our-gut/">hundreds of different bacteriophages</a> “thanks to the fact that bacteria keep ‘files’ within their genome of every virus that has ever tried to attack them.” Some of these phages may confer benefits to our internal ecosystem. And humanity has 80% of them in common.</p> </div> <span><a title="View user profile." href="https://scienceblogs.com/author/milhayser" lang about="https://scienceblogs.com/author/milhayser" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype>milhayser</a></span> <span><time datetime="2012-07-30T03:35:13-04:00" title="Monday, July 30, 2012 - 03:35">Mon, 07/30/2012 - 03:35</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-blog-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field--label">Tags</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="https://scienceblogs.com/tag/malaria" hreflang="en">malaria</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="https://scienceblogs.com/tag/microflora" hreflang="en">Microflora</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="https://scienceblogs.com/tag/viruses" hreflang="en">viruses</a></div> </div> </div> <section> </section> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="comment-forbidden"></li></ul> Fri, 07 Feb 2020 16:52:20 +0000 sb admin 151439 at https://scienceblogs.com https://scienceblogs.com/hankcampbell/2019/04/03/eppendorf-science-prize-neurobiology-entries-accepted-until-june-15-2019 <span>Malaria and the Inner Armies</span> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ignacio_diez/7479609840/"><img class="alignleft" title="Plasmodium ovale by leboski" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8158/7479609840_fa58429bfe.jpg" alt width="600"></a>On ERV, Abbie Smith writes “Malaria kills 1.24 million people a year. Mostly babies under 5 years old.” Malaria, although carried by mosquitoes, is caused by a single-celled protist which infects the liver and goes on to parasitize red blood cells. Now, a little genetic engineering could put <a title="ERV" href="http://scienceblogs.com/erv/2012/07/18/gmo-bacteria-vs-malaria/">a stop to this scourge</a>. Smith says “Mosquitoes have a symbiotic relationship with their bacteria the same way we do—they need their ‘good’ bacteria to get all the nutrients they need to survive.” By tweaking the protein output of one such bacteria, scientists have made mosquito guts inhospitable to malaria. <a title="Life Lines" href="http://scienceblogs.com/lifelines/2012/07/18/malaria-fighting-bacteria/">The test result?</a> An 84% decrease in the number of mosquitoes carrying malaria, and a 98% reduction in malarial replication among carriers. Of course, mosquitoes aren’t the only animals that support friendly bacteria—and researchers at the Weizmann Institute are discovering that our friendly bacteria support a number of viruses. They identified <a title="The Weizmann Wave" href="http://scienceblogs.com/weizmann/2012/07/17/the-surprising-viruses-in-our-gut/">hundreds of different bacteriophages</a> “thanks to the fact that bacteria keep ‘files’ within their genome of every virus that has ever tried to attack them.” Some of these phages may confer benefits to our internal ecosystem. And humanity has 80% of them in common.</p> </div> <span><a title="View user profile." href="https://scienceblogs.com/author/milhayser" lang about="https://scienceblogs.com/author/milhayser" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype>milhayser</a></span> <span><time datetime="2012-07-30T03:35:13-04:00" title="Monday, July 30, 2012 - 03:35">Mon, 07/30/2012 - 03:35</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-blog-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field--label">Tags</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="https://scienceblogs.com/tag/malaria" hreflang="en">malaria</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="https://scienceblogs.com/tag/microflora" hreflang="en">Microflora</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="https://scienceblogs.com/tag/viruses" hreflang="en">viruses</a></div> </div> </div> <section> </section> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="comment-forbidden"></li></ul> Wed, 03 Apr 2019 14:38:26 +0000 hank_campbell 151416 at https://scienceblogs.com https://scienceblogs.com/lifelines/2017/10/17/5-competition-horses-calmed-by-lavender <span>Malaria and the Inner Armies</span> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ignacio_diez/7479609840/"><img class="alignleft" title="Plasmodium ovale by leboski" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8158/7479609840_fa58429bfe.jpg" alt width="600"></a>On ERV, Abbie Smith writes “Malaria kills 1.24 million people a year. Mostly babies under 5 years old.” Malaria, although carried by mosquitoes, is caused by a single-celled protist which infects the liver and goes on to parasitize red blood cells. Now, a little genetic engineering could put <a title="ERV" href="http://scienceblogs.com/erv/2012/07/18/gmo-bacteria-vs-malaria/">a stop to this scourge</a>. Smith says “Mosquitoes have a symbiotic relationship with their bacteria the same way we do—they need their ‘good’ bacteria to get all the nutrients they need to survive.” By tweaking the protein output of one such bacteria, scientists have made mosquito guts inhospitable to malaria. <a title="Life Lines" href="http://scienceblogs.com/lifelines/2012/07/18/malaria-fighting-bacteria/">The test result?</a> An 84% decrease in the number of mosquitoes carrying malaria, and a 98% reduction in malarial replication among carriers. Of course, mosquitoes aren’t the only animals that support friendly bacteria—and researchers at the Weizmann Institute are discovering that our friendly bacteria support a number of viruses. They identified <a title="The Weizmann Wave" href="http://scienceblogs.com/weizmann/2012/07/17/the-surprising-viruses-in-our-gut/">hundreds of different bacteriophages</a> “thanks to the fact that bacteria keep ‘files’ within their genome of every virus that has ever tried to attack them.” Some of these phages may confer benefits to our internal ecosystem. And humanity has 80% of them in common.</p> </div> <span><a title="View user profile." href="https://scienceblogs.com/author/milhayser" lang about="https://scienceblogs.com/author/milhayser" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype>milhayser</a></span> <span><time datetime="2012-07-30T03:35:13-04:00" title="Monday, July 30, 2012 - 03:35">Mon, 07/30/2012 - 03:35</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-blog-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field--label">Tags</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="https://scienceblogs.com/tag/malaria" hreflang="en">malaria</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="https://scienceblogs.com/tag/microflora" hreflang="en">Microflora</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="https://scienceblogs.com/tag/viruses" hreflang="en">viruses</a></div> </div> </div> <section> </section> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="comment-forbidden"></li></ul> Tue, 17 Oct 2017 10:26:39 +0000 dr. dolittle 150526 at https://scienceblogs.com https://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2017/10/04/cheap-science-books <span>Malaria and the Inner Armies</span> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ignacio_diez/7479609840/"><img class="alignleft" title="Plasmodium ovale by leboski" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8158/7479609840_fa58429bfe.jpg" alt width="600"></a>On ERV, Abbie Smith writes “Malaria kills 1.24 million people a year. Mostly babies under 5 years old.” Malaria, although carried by mosquitoes, is caused by a single-celled protist which infects the liver and goes on to parasitize red blood cells. Now, a little genetic engineering could put <a title="ERV" href="http://scienceblogs.com/erv/2012/07/18/gmo-bacteria-vs-malaria/">a stop to this scourge</a>. Smith says “Mosquitoes have a symbiotic relationship with their bacteria the same way we do—they need their ‘good’ bacteria to get all the nutrients they need to survive.” By tweaking the protein output of one such bacteria, scientists have made mosquito guts inhospitable to malaria. <a title="Life Lines" href="http://scienceblogs.com/lifelines/2012/07/18/malaria-fighting-bacteria/">The test result?</a> An 84% decrease in the number of mosquitoes carrying malaria, and a 98% reduction in malarial replication among carriers. Of course, mosquitoes aren’t the only animals that support friendly bacteria—and researchers at the Weizmann Institute are discovering that our friendly bacteria support a number of viruses. They identified <a title="The Weizmann Wave" href="http://scienceblogs.com/weizmann/2012/07/17/the-surprising-viruses-in-our-gut/">hundreds of different bacteriophages</a> “thanks to the fact that bacteria keep ‘files’ within their genome of every virus that has ever tried to attack them.” Some of these phages may confer benefits to our internal ecosystem. And humanity has 80% of them in common.</p> </div> <span><a title="View user profile." href="https://scienceblogs.com/author/milhayser" lang about="https://scienceblogs.com/author/milhayser" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype>milhayser</a></span> <span><time datetime="2012-07-30T03:35:13-04:00" title="Monday, July 30, 2012 - 03:35">Mon, 07/30/2012 - 03:35</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-blog-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field--label">Tags</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="https://scienceblogs.com/tag/malaria" hreflang="en">malaria</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="https://scienceblogs.com/tag/microflora" hreflang="en">Microflora</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="https://scienceblogs.com/tag/viruses" hreflang="en">viruses</a></div> </div> </div> <section> </section> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="comment-forbidden"></li></ul> Wed, 04 Oct 2017 12:02:43 +0000 gregladen 34556 at https://scienceblogs.com https://scienceblogs.com/lifelines/2017/09/29/pigeons-outperform-humans-when-it-comes-to-multitasking <span>Malaria and the Inner Armies</span> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ignacio_diez/7479609840/"><img class="alignleft" title="Plasmodium ovale by leboski" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8158/7479609840_fa58429bfe.jpg" alt width="600"></a>On ERV, Abbie Smith writes “Malaria kills 1.24 million people a year. Mostly babies under 5 years old.” Malaria, although carried by mosquitoes, is caused by a single-celled protist which infects the liver and goes on to parasitize red blood cells. Now, a little genetic engineering could put <a title="ERV" href="http://scienceblogs.com/erv/2012/07/18/gmo-bacteria-vs-malaria/">a stop to this scourge</a>. Smith says “Mosquitoes have a symbiotic relationship with their bacteria the same way we do—they need their ‘good’ bacteria to get all the nutrients they need to survive.” By tweaking the protein output of one such bacteria, scientists have made mosquito guts inhospitable to malaria. <a title="Life Lines" href="http://scienceblogs.com/lifelines/2012/07/18/malaria-fighting-bacteria/">The test result?</a> An 84% decrease in the number of mosquitoes carrying malaria, and a 98% reduction in malarial replication among carriers. Of course, mosquitoes aren’t the only animals that support friendly bacteria—and researchers at the Weizmann Institute are discovering that our friendly bacteria support a number of viruses. They identified <a title="The Weizmann Wave" href="http://scienceblogs.com/weizmann/2012/07/17/the-surprising-viruses-in-our-gut/">hundreds of different bacteriophages</a> “thanks to the fact that bacteria keep ‘files’ within their genome of every virus that has ever tried to attack them.” Some of these phages may confer benefits to our internal ecosystem. And humanity has 80% of them in common.</p> </div> <span><a title="View user profile." href="https://scienceblogs.com/author/milhayser" lang about="https://scienceblogs.com/author/milhayser" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype>milhayser</a></span> <span><time datetime="2012-07-30T03:35:13-04:00" title="Monday, July 30, 2012 - 03:35">Mon, 07/30/2012 - 03:35</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-blog-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field--label">Tags</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="https://scienceblogs.com/tag/malaria" hreflang="en">malaria</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="https://scienceblogs.com/tag/microflora" hreflang="en">Microflora</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="https://scienceblogs.com/tag/viruses" hreflang="en">viruses</a></div> </div> </div> <section> </section> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="comment-forbidden"></li></ul> Thu, 28 Sep 2017 22:51:54 +0000 dr. dolittle 150523 at https://scienceblogs.com https://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2017/09/27/torturing-more-mice-in-the-name-of-antivaccine-pseudoscience-was-it-fraud-or-incompetence <span>Malaria and the Inner Armies</span> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ignacio_diez/7479609840/"><img class="alignleft" title="Plasmodium ovale by leboski" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8158/7479609840_fa58429bfe.jpg" alt width="600"></a>On ERV, Abbie Smith writes “Malaria kills 1.24 million people a year. Mostly babies under 5 years old.” Malaria, although carried by mosquitoes, is caused by a single-celled protist which infects the liver and goes on to parasitize red blood cells. Now, a little genetic engineering could put <a title="ERV" href="http://scienceblogs.com/erv/2012/07/18/gmo-bacteria-vs-malaria/">a stop to this scourge</a>. Smith says “Mosquitoes have a symbiotic relationship with their bacteria the same way we do—they need their ‘good’ bacteria to get all the nutrients they need to survive.” By tweaking the protein output of one such bacteria, scientists have made mosquito guts inhospitable to malaria. <a title="Life Lines" href="http://scienceblogs.com/lifelines/2012/07/18/malaria-fighting-bacteria/">The test result?</a> An 84% decrease in the number of mosquitoes carrying malaria, and a 98% reduction in malarial replication among carriers. Of course, mosquitoes aren’t the only animals that support friendly bacteria—and researchers at the Weizmann Institute are discovering that our friendly bacteria support a number of viruses. They identified <a title="The Weizmann Wave" href="http://scienceblogs.com/weizmann/2012/07/17/the-surprising-viruses-in-our-gut/">hundreds of different bacteriophages</a> “thanks to the fact that bacteria keep ‘files’ within their genome of every virus that has ever tried to attack them.” Some of these phages may confer benefits to our internal ecosystem. And humanity has 80% of them in common.</p> </div> <span><a title="View user profile." href="https://scienceblogs.com/author/milhayser" lang about="https://scienceblogs.com/author/milhayser" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype>milhayser</a></span> <span><time datetime="2012-07-30T03:35:13-04:00" title="Monday, July 30, 2012 - 03:35">Mon, 07/30/2012 - 03:35</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-blog-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field--label">Tags</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="https://scienceblogs.com/tag/malaria" hreflang="en">malaria</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="https://scienceblogs.com/tag/microflora" hreflang="en">Microflora</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="https://scienceblogs.com/tag/viruses" hreflang="en">viruses</a></div> </div> </div> <section> </section> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="comment-forbidden"></li></ul> Wed, 27 Sep 2017 05:00:40 +0000 oracknows 22631 at https://scienceblogs.com https://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2017/09/21/torturing-more-mice-in-the-name-of-antivaccine-pseudoscience-2017-aluminum-edition <span>Malaria and the Inner Armies</span> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ignacio_diez/7479609840/"><img class="alignleft" title="Plasmodium ovale by leboski" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8158/7479609840_fa58429bfe.jpg" alt width="600"></a>On ERV, Abbie Smith writes “Malaria kills 1.24 million people a year. Mostly babies under 5 years old.” Malaria, although carried by mosquitoes, is caused by a single-celled protist which infects the liver and goes on to parasitize red blood cells. Now, a little genetic engineering could put <a title="ERV" href="http://scienceblogs.com/erv/2012/07/18/gmo-bacteria-vs-malaria/">a stop to this scourge</a>. Smith says “Mosquitoes have a symbiotic relationship with their bacteria the same way we do—they need their ‘good’ bacteria to get all the nutrients they need to survive.” By tweaking the protein output of one such bacteria, scientists have made mosquito guts inhospitable to malaria. <a title="Life Lines" href="http://scienceblogs.com/lifelines/2012/07/18/malaria-fighting-bacteria/">The test result?</a> An 84% decrease in the number of mosquitoes carrying malaria, and a 98% reduction in malarial replication among carriers. Of course, mosquitoes aren’t the only animals that support friendly bacteria—and researchers at the Weizmann Institute are discovering that our friendly bacteria support a number of viruses. They identified <a title="The Weizmann Wave" href="http://scienceblogs.com/weizmann/2012/07/17/the-surprising-viruses-in-our-gut/">hundreds of different bacteriophages</a> “thanks to the fact that bacteria keep ‘files’ within their genome of every virus that has ever tried to attack them.” Some of these phages may confer benefits to our internal ecosystem. And humanity has 80% of them in common.</p> </div> <span><a title="View user profile." href="https://scienceblogs.com/author/milhayser" lang about="https://scienceblogs.com/author/milhayser" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype>milhayser</a></span> <span><time datetime="2012-07-30T03:35:13-04:00" title="Monday, July 30, 2012 - 03:35">Mon, 07/30/2012 - 03:35</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-blog-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field--label">Tags</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="https://scienceblogs.com/tag/malaria" hreflang="en">malaria</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="https://scienceblogs.com/tag/microflora" hreflang="en">Microflora</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="https://scienceblogs.com/tag/viruses" hreflang="en">viruses</a></div> </div> </div> <section> </section> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="comment-forbidden"></li></ul> Thu, 21 Sep 2017 05:00:11 +0000 oracknows 22627 at https://scienceblogs.com