text: You are here: Home / Archives for Marcia StoneAbout Marcia StoneMarcia Stone has been a science writer/journalist since leaving research almost forty years ago. Her work can be seen in a variety of publications including the American Society for Microbiology's Microbe magazine, the American Institute of Biological Sciences' BioScience and as eBriefings on the New York Academy of Sciences website.
  February 24, 2012 by Marcia Stone Leave a Comment You may want to put down that fork – brain-damaging prions could be lurking in your dinner. By showing that spleen tissue is up to sevenfold more receptive to foreign prions than that of the brain, Vincent Béringue PhD, and colleagues at the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) in Jouy-en-Josas, France, recently challenged the [...]
  Pages: 1 2 3 Filed Under: Headlines, Microbiology Tagged With: Alzheimer's disease, BSE, chronic wasting disease, CJD, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, CWD, Hubert Laude, John Collinge, mad cow disease, Mark Zabel, Mark Zabel prions, prions, scrapie, Vincent Béringue Public Concern Prompts Pause in Bird Flu Research
  Pages: 1 2 Filed Under: Headlines, Microbiology Tagged With: bird flu, H5 research moratorium, H5N1, National Scientific Advisory Board for Biosecurity, NSABB, Paul Keim, Ron Fouchier, Yoshihiro Kawaoka Nitric Oxide – A Newly Discovered Potential Target for Biofilm Control
  January 21, 2012 by Marcia Stone Leave a Comment Like most humans, bacteria prefer urban environments: cooperation makes earning a living easier, and life in the company of friendly others is generally safer than going it alone. Biofilms, where cells from the same or different species crowd together embedded in a protective glue-like substance called an "extracellular polysaccharide matrix (EPS)," are the bacterial cities [...]
  Pages: 1 2 Filed Under: Headlines, Microbiology Tagged With: AHL, AI-2, bacterial group behaviors, biofilm control, Bonnie Bassler, c-di-GMP, CAI-1, Elizabeth Boon, H-NOX, nitric oxide, NO, P. aeruginosa, QS, quorum sensing, V. harveyi NSABB Asks Influenza Researchers to Withhold Technical Information
  Pages: 1 2 Filed Under: Headlines, Microbiology Tagged With: bird flu virus, Bruce Alberts, H5N1, influenza research, National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, NSABB, pandemic influenza, Philip Cambell, Ron A.M. fouchier, Yoshihiro Kawaoka MIT Researchers Target Cancer's Most Deadly Phase
  December 24, 2011 by Marcia Stone Leave a Comment If malignant cells could be kept from wandering about the body and colonizing new sites, the number of cancer deaths would be cut by about 90%. However, it's become apparent in recent years that metastasis isn't a simple, random process; it's a well-orchestrated sequence of events most of which are largely unknown. In fact, "[metastasis] [...]
  Pages: 1 2 Filed Under: Oncology Tagged With: cancer metastasis, Cancer stem cells, Colonization, CSCs, EMT, Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition, oncogenes, Rober A. Weinberg «Older Posts Find us on Google+