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Caenorhabditis elegans Worm Travels by Slug Intestine
Everything is interrelated in this
world. Nothing stands alone. Life itself is a community process. One
animal lives with and off another. Indeed, many creatures cannot
survive without the presence of particular others. Caenorhabditis elegans worms living
"alongside" slugs is a case in point.
Slugs
eat decomposing plants. Worms get a ride to new destinations by going
through a slugs' intestines and being dropped out in poo in other
locations. Consequently, worms can better exploit food resources.
Surviving another animals digestive system is something unexpected.
C. elegans is the
leading lab guinea pig. More is known about it than mice. However, its
journey to regions anew has just been discovered. Moreover, they live
on the surface of the ground not in the soil as previously supposed.
Their food supply of bacteria and fungi are quickly exhausted so they
have to move to new pastures.
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◆ Biology by Ty Buchanan ◆
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New Compunds in a Database to Fight Infection
When things get tough people will try anything. Antibiotics are no longer working, so researchers are asking for newly mixed compounds by chemists to be sent along to them. This a new project set up by the University of Queensland.
The belief is that scientists are working on the same middle of the road compounds. It is in new compounds where hope lies. Every day new compounds are made and just discarded. They are never screened to see what they can do against pathogens.
Community for Open Antimicrobial Drug Discovery (CO-ADD researchers located at UQ are ready to test the compounds against fungi and bacteria, especially superbugs. This will work because rights remain with the chemists who provide the samples.
Funding has been been gained from sources in Australia, New Zealand, the U.S., France and India. The project began in February and will be ongoing. Prevalent diseases like malaria an dengue fever will be included in the target list. The database will be open to the public.
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