A total of three cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare and incurable brain condition, have been detected in Hood River ...

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Health officials in Hood River County, Ore., are investigating three cases of Creutzfeld Jakob disease. Two have died and a ...

Hood River County in Oregon reported three cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare human brain disease very similar to ...

Methane leaks from sites like rice paddies, landfills, dairy farms and coal mines could be plugged with the help of gas-guzzling bacteria, helping to curb near-term global warming. Later this year ...

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The study focuses on a bacterium called Porphyromonas gingivalis. This bacteria is commonly found in people with gum disease, a condition that causes swelling, bleeding, and damage to the tissues ...

Bacterial evolution is the process of heritable change in populations of bacteria over multiple generations. It occurs through mechanisms including natural selection and genetic drift, and can ...

Bacterial chaperonin paralogues exhibit divergence at their C-terminus. Here, the authors demonstrate that the Gly-Met-rich C-termini are functionally significant in protein folding.