Parasites

Fires on the border between Israel and Lebanon. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The war on the hive: how do the fires affect the bee population in Israel?

Following the severe fires in the north, the beehives were also damaged - what might be the cost of the damage and is there anything that can be done to restore them?
In the photo: a fluorescent image of the parasite's spores Photo: Prof. Stephen D. Atkinson (Oregon State University, OR

The world's first non-breathing animal was discovered

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Cows die of diseases carried by the tsetse fly, South Africa, 1896. From Wikipedia

Also for a hot fly

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Plasmodium parasite that causes malaria. Source: Ute Frevert / Margaret Shear / Wikimedia Commons.

The trick of the malaria parasite

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Myxozoa - a parasite that lives in fins and turns out to have originated from jellyfish that evolution caused to degenerate. Photo: JCU University, Czech Republic

What is an animal? A new discovery from Tel Aviv University may change the most basic definitions

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Illustrating the way Nobel laureate Satoshi Umura arrived at the effective substances against parasitic diseases. Illustration: Nobel Prize website

Bacteria and plants against parasites

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Drug developers against malaria, river blindness and elephantiasis won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Image: Nobel Prize website

Nobel Prize in Medicine for the developers of methods of curing diseases caused by parasites including malaria and river blindness

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escape with the help of a complex genetic mechanism. Malaria parasites in red blood cells. Photo courtesy of Prof. Ron Dzikowski.

You will fight with tricks - with malaria

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An orange tree is infected with Citrus tristeza virus. From Wikipedia

The end of the orange juice / Anna Kushment

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The Red Queen Race. Illustration: John Tenniel, from Lewis Carroll's book "Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There".

Who needs sex when you can dry off?

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C. elegans worms in a petri dish - those that reproduced sexually survived better

The advantage is that it reproduces sexually

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Julia Kubanek, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, holds samples of tropical algae whose surface chemicals are being studied for their potential against malaria. Image: Gary Meek

Antifungal compound against malaria

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cuckoo

Forced adoption

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An ant with a spore plant (fungus) on its head

Mind control is nothing new in nature

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Research: What causes the growth of toxic algae in the waters of the Kinneret and the threat to water quality in Israel

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Darwin's coral reef of life according to Gugraten and Gupna: the lineages of living things today (in black) all descend from one ancient ancestor (black arrow). But this ancient ancestor did not live alone. Many other extinct species lived around it (gray lines). However, lateral gene transfer (red arrow) allowed their genes to survive and has reached the present day. This means that different cellular mechanisms in our body, such as the ribosomes and the enzymes that produce ATP, have different and extinct ancestors, who did not live in the same places and at the same times as the common ancestor of us and all the living world.

can you pass me this garden please

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The Trypanosoma_brucei parasite is surrounded by blood cells in an infected blood sample. Illustration: ürgen Berger and Dr. Peter Overath, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany

Researchers have discovered lateral transfer of genes between blood-sucking insects and mammals

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Prof. Peter Gograten, photo: University of Connecticut photo by Daniel Buttrey

It is as if the long neck of the giraffe is transferred to a duck - lateral transfer of genes

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

G6PD: the healthy side of disease

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Red queens, tiny crabs and parasitic bacteria

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The World Health Organization has recommended the adoption of a new monitoring method for the bilharzia disease developed by a researcher from the Hebrew University

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Can the fruit still be saved?

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The worm that determines the menu for the cougar

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