Researchers from Emory University in Atlanta report in the online journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases that they used phylogenetics — the study of the evolutionary
link between organisms — to study 26 geographically scattered strains of a family of bacteria known as Treponemes, which are behind the sexually transmitted disease syphilis as well as related nonvenereal infections such as yaws.
Not exact matches
For Piaget, as for his predecessors, the living
organism was the prototype of a holistic structure and the connecting
link between, on the one hand, physical - chemical systems and, on the other hand, the thinking subject (S 40).
DE: This seems to me to be what his philosophy of
organism should have gone for, and when he said he was trying to make this a bridge notion
between the biological and physical sciences, I think the
link is in his notion of the «non-uniform object» of which the simplest example is the wave.
«Although we can not demonstrate a direct
link between Candida infection and physiological brain processes, our data show that some factor associated with Candida infection, and possibly the
organism itself, plays a role in affecting the memory of women with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and this is an avenue that needs to be further explored,» says Severance.
Researchers at the Stowers Institute have established a definitive
link between the makeup of the microbiome, the host immune response, and an
organism's ability to heal itself.
In this publication, under the title of «Membrane - Derived Phospholipids Control Synaptic Neurotransmission and Plasticity», the Cadiz scientists have reflected the work of years that has led them to identify a molecule, Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA), as a possible element implicated in the
link between the metabolic state of an
organism and its cerebral function.
Taken together, these
organisms weigh approximately 10 billion tons and are a major
link in the food chain
between microscopic plankton and top predators like tuna, birds and marine mammals, according to Simone Baumann - Pickering, an assistant research biologist at the University of California, in San Diego.
To see if those effects might explain the
link between paraquat, aging, and PD in living
organisms, the team turned to genetically altered mice that the Campisi lab had developed for senescent cell studies.
As I've written about before when I talked about our experience with the GAPS protocol, we've known about a
link between gut health and mental health for a long time, and it turns out that certain soil based
organisms play an important role here too:
She explores the relationship
between internal and external, how individuals are
linked to the tissues and blood vessels of other
organisms, and in so doing, she suggests relationships with the universe at large.
It can also be viewed as a life - giving metaphor for the
link between humankind and the earth and a hymn to procreation in all living
organisms, which, in this respect, are related or analogous.