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June 22, 2022 —A full DNA analysis of mites that live in the hair follicles of all humans reveals explanations for their bizarre mating habits, body features and evolutionary future. Inbreeding and isolation means ...
June 30, 2023 —Ticks can be attracted across air gaps several times larger than themselves by the static electricity that their hosts naturally accumulate, researchers have ...
July 28, 2022 —Early exposure to antibiotics kills healthy bacteria in the digestive tract and can cause asthma and allergies, a new study ...
Nov. 11, 2020 —每一天,十个美国人死于哮喘。而曲ick-acting inhalers and medications can reduce inflammation during an asthma attack, people with asthma have few tools to prevent the next attack ...
July 12, 2023 —A bacterium that causes a disease called scrub typhus -- a disease not previously reported in the United States -- has been detected in North Carolina, according to a new ...
Dec. 22, 2020 —By drawing from decades of studies, scientists created a timeline marking the arrival of black-legged ticks, also known as deer ticks, in hundreds of counties across 10 Midwestern states. They used ...
Dec. 10, 2020 —One reason ticks spread Lyme disease so well goes back to a unique evolutionary event. Researchers discovered that an antibacterial enzyme in ticks, Dae2, protects them from bacteria found on human ...
June 8, 2022 —As surveillance for ticks and the disease-causing germs they spread improves, so does Americans' access to knowledge about where the risk of tickborne disease is greatest. Experts have assembled ...
Sep. 9, 2020 —A tick species associated with bats has been reported for the first time in New Jersey and could pose health risks to people, pets and livestock, according to a new study. This species (Carios ...
Jan. 5, 2022 —Many experiments show that exposure to LPS during exposure to environmental allergens protects against developing asthma or allergic disease. Yet other numerous experiments show that the presence of ...