viernes, 26 de noviembre de 2010
Hepatitis C - Morbimortalidad
http://www.europapress.es/sociedad/salud/noticia-mitad-espanoles-vih-tiene-tambien-hepatitis-20101125130056.html
Evoución de la Microscopía
En breve, dice él que Sanjeevi Sivasankar es un profesor de Física y Astronomía de la Iowa State University que quería estudiar proteínas, pero de manera singular. No quería estudiar una disolución o un cristal que contiene millones de moléculas de proteínas en estado puro. No, él quiere estudiar las proteínas una a una.
Se trata, por tanto, de la combinación de dos tecnologías que permiten ese tipo de estudios: la microscopia de fuerza atómica y la transferencia de energía de resonancia.
El autor, cuenta Manuel, dice que usar una u otra de las tecnologías era como tener manos pero no ojos, o tener ojos pero no manos y por tanto de ahí su idea de combinarlas. El nuevo instrumento está siendo probado mediante el estudio de las cadherinas, un tipo de proteína que se encuentra en las membranas celulares de nuestras células y que sirve para que estás se mantengan juntas. También se está utilizando en el estudio del DNA y de los nanocristales.
Referencia original: Iowa State University, esta entrada participa en el XIII Carnaval de la Física
viernes, 15 de octubre de 2010
viernes, 8 de octubre de 2010
Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes and vaccine formulations
Excelente formulación y desarrollo del tema....
Ver: http://www.microbiologybytes.com/blog/2010/10/06/streptococcus-pneumoniae-serotypes-and-vaccine-formulations/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Microbiologybytes+(MicrobiologyBytes)
sábado, 22 de mayo de 2010
jueves, 4 de marzo de 2010
lunes, 8 de febrero de 2010
Expression Strategies of Ambisense Viruses
The ambisense coding strategy is an unusual way of encoding genes that presumably allows the virus to temporally control expression of the viral proteins, in particular if coupling of translation to transcription enhances the level of vc-encoded versus v-encoded protein expression. In any event, translation itself and/or translational control appear to play an important role in regulation of gene expression of ambisense viruses. Ambisense viruses have two hosts in which they can replicate. In their vector or reservoir host, infection is usually asymptomatic. However, in another host, multiplication of the virus can be lethal. Replication/transcription experiments in different host cell types would be helpful to shed further light on the differences observed in different hosts. At present, there are many complementary ways to study ambisense virus replication/ transcription such as cell culture, in vitro assays and reverse genetics systems. Since ambisense viruses are the meeting point of different viral families and are able to replicate in different hosts whether plants or animals and have different behaviors depending on the host, it would be particularly important to better understand the complex replicative cycle of ambisense viruses, in order to find the means to alleviate the lethal aspects of these pathogens.
Expression strategies of ambisense viruses. Virus Research 93: 141-150, 2003. doi: 10.1016/S0168-1702(03)00094-7
Taken by: AJCann, Expression strategies of ambisense viruses, (on line) url: http://www.microbiologybytes.com/blog/2010/02/08/expression-strategies-of-ambisense-viruses/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Microbiologybytes+%28MicrobiologyBytes%29 (cited on) Feb 8/2010
miércoles, 3 de febrero de 2010
QUE RELACION EXISTE ENTRE EL CONSUMO DE TABACO Y LA MICROBIOLOGIA
Todo el mundo sabe que los fumadores son mas propensos a padecer infecciones respiratorias porque el tabaco debilita las defensas inmunitarias, ademas de otros efectos perniciosos.
Sin embargo, Dra. Sapkota se le ocurrio pensar que los cigarrillos tambien podrian ser una fuente de infeccion, a partir de los microorganismos presentes en ellos.
Cuando se intenta aislar microorganismos de un cigarrillo, mediante el metodo tradicional de conseguir aislamientos en placas de Petri, encuentra una o dos especies de estos. Pero el grupo de Sapkota ha utilizado una aproximacion basada en la genomica: Aislo y secuencio el gen del 16S rRNA de los microorganismos presentes en marcas tan conocidas como Marlboro, Camel o Lucky Strike. Alli encontraron grandes cantidades de bacterias pertenecientes a los generos Campylobacter, que puede causar intoxicaciones alimentarias y el sindrome de Guillain-Barre; Clostridium, que tambien causa intoxicaciones y pneumonias; Corynebacterium, tambien asociada a pneumonias; Escherichia coli, Klebsiella y Pseudomonas, patogenos oportunistas que pueden causar pneumonias, y una gran cantidad de especies de Staphylococcus.
Se podria pensar que el calor generado en la combustion de un cigarrillo seria suficiente para eliminar a las bacterias presentes en el mismo, pero puede que no. La combustion esta en una zona localizada y la aspiracion del humo podria desprender a los microorganismos y transportarlos al interior de los pulmones. Es precisamente este el siguiente objetivo del grupo de la Dra. Sapkota: Demostrar que eso puede suceder.
En conclusion, dejar de fumar es una accion benefica tanto para los pulmones como para el sistema inmune.
lunes, 25 de enero de 2010
*********** The Science of Small Clinical Trials ***********
The Office of Rare Diseases Research at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Office of Orphan Products Development at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), are pleased to announce the 2010 edition of their collaboratively developed course, "The Science of Small Clinical Trials." This is a broad survey course (not a high-level statistical seminar), which is intended to heighten awareness of the methods that exist to design and analyze clinical trials using small numbers of participants. An inescapable necessity when dealing with rare diseases, the use of small trials is also rising in prominence in the context of tissue transplantation, advanced prosthetics, and individualized pharmacogenomics.
The first edition of the course, offered in 2009, was restricted to FDA and NIH staff. The 2010 edition of the course has been revised (based upon comments from 2009 participants), and is now open to ANYONE who wishes to register. The course comprises 7 2-hour lectures, presented at the Lister Hill Center Auditorium on the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD, rom 16 February through 8 March, 2010; the lectures will also be available online via the Internet, live and by delayed on-demand video streaming (using freely available RealPlayer software), allowing anyone with a good Internet connection and appropriate computer to participate (questions from remote attendees will be received via a live text chat room, or via a discussion forum, on a web site dedicated to the course).
ALL participants must register. An optional self-administered open-book, On-line examination will be provided at the end of the course, and individuals who pass this examination will receive a certificate from FDA's Office of Orphan Products Development.
For more information about the course, and online registration, visit: ttp://small-trials.keenminds.org/
R.P.C. Rodgers, MD (CAPT,USPHS)
Office of Orphan Products Development,
FDA 5600 Fishers Lane(HF-35)
Rockville MD 20859
301-827-0142 (Phone)
301-827-0017 (Fax)
Stephen C. Groft, Pharm. D.
Director, Office of Rare Diseases Research,
NIH 6100 Executive Boulevard,
Room 3A-07 Bethesda,
MD 20892-7518
301-435-6041 (Phone)
301-480-9655 (Fax)
Requests should be made at least 5 days in advance of the event.
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ABOUT TDR
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lunes, 18 de enero de 2010
Microbiologia, tejidos y organos humanos.
Referencias
Tomado de:
Sanchez, M. (2010). Curiosidades de la Microbiologia, (on line) url: http://curiosidadesdelamicrobiologia.blogspot.com/2010/01/pellejos-y-microbiota.html cited on Jan 18 de 2010.
martes, 5 de enero de 2010
ARE OUR HOMES MICROBIOLOGICALLY SAFE FOR OUR PETS?
Ver el artículo completo en: http://www.sgm.ac.uk/pubs/micro_today/pdf/110905.pdf
PENN, C. 2009, Microbiology Today, (on line) url: http://www.sgm.ac.uk/pubs/micro_today/pdf/110905.pdf
(Citado en Enero 5/10)