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( University Hospital Heidelberg ) If mice are administered an antibiotic for three days and are simultaneously infected with malaria, no parasites appear in the blood and life-threatening disease is averted. In addition, the animals treated in this manner also develop robust, long-term immunity against subsequent infections. This discovery was made by the team headed by Dr. Steffen Borrmann ...

An international team led by researchers from CREAF and CSIC has analysed 493 species of mammals to confirm that animals with the largest brains live for longer. The new study confirms the adaptive advantages of having a large brain...

Last week, my SciBling Jason Goldman interviewed me for his blog. The questions were not so much about blogging, journalism, Open Access and PLoS (except a little bit at the end) but more about science - how I got into it, what are my grad school experiences, what I think about doing research on animals, and such stuff. Jason posted the interview here, on his blog, on Friday , and he also let me ...

Scientists are reporting the first evidence that a plastic antibody? an artificial version of the proteins produced by the body's immune system to recognize and fight infections and foreign substances? works in the bloodstream of a living animal.

Scientists are reporting the first evidence that a plastic antibody - an artificial version of the proteins produced by the body's immune system to recognize and fight infections and foreign substances - works in the bloodstream of a living animal. The discovery, they suggest in a report in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, is an advance toward medical use of simple plastic particles ...