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All Articles Tagged As: immune system


Bacteria Use Plant Defence for Genetic Modification (10/23/2007)

Bacteria Use Plant Defence for Genetic ModificationBacteria that cause tumours in plants modify plant genomes by skilfully exploiting the plants' first line of defence. ...> Full Article


Auto Immune Response Creates Barrier To Fertility; Could Be A Step In Speciation (9/5/2007)

Plant biologists at the Max Planck Institute of Developmental Biology and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered that an autoimmune response, triggered by a small number of genes, can be a barrier to producing a viable offspring. ...> Full Article


Entomologist On International Team That Identified Mosquito's Immune System Genes (6/29/2007)

Entomologist On International Team That Identified Mosquito's Immune System GenesUnderstanding how the immune system evolved in insects can help scientists gain new insight into human response to infection, says an Iowa State University entomologist. ...> Full Article


Invertebrate Immune Systems Are Anything But Simple (6/29/2007)

Invertebrate Immune Systems Are Anything But SimpleA hundred years since Russian microbiologist Elie Metschnikow first discovered the invertebrate immune system, scientists are only just beginning to understand its complexity. Presenting their findings at a recent European Science Foundation (ESF) conference, scientists showed that invertebrates have evolved elaborate ways to fight disease. ...> Full Article

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