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But, overriding every other consideration is the parasite's determination to keep its position upon the host.
David Brock: 400 Rabbis Can't Be Wrong David 2011
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But, overriding every other consideration is the parasite's determination to keep its position upon the host.
David Brock: 400 Rabbis Can't Be Wrong David 2011
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By analyzing thousands of RNA sequences — the biochemical record of the parasite's genetic activity — entomologist Omprakash Mittapalli and his Ohio State colleagues found that bedbugs exposed to pesticides showed unusually high levels of activity among those genes controlling enzymes able to turn the toxic chemicals into water-soluble compounds that can be safely excreted.
Why Bedbugs Won't Die Robert Lee Hotz 2011
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But at the same time, the parasite's resistance to some drugs is growing, while new outbreaks are underway in Venezuela and parts of Southeast Asia.
Volunteers at Walter Reed endure mosquito bites to help find a malaria vaccine Eric Niiler 2010
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Many common medicines treat malaria by essentially making the parasite's blood meal toxic.
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For two weeks, professionals drew blood and checked on the parasite's progress.
Volunteers at Walter Reed endure mosquito bites to help find a malaria vaccine Eric Niiler 2010
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So that makes the parasite's exploitation of this behavior in the mosquito so wily, because the mosquito is not going to give up its blood meal.
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There's no downside these days to whipping music-industry weasels, and Bass lashes Fabor as a parasite's parasite, living large off the sweat of the Browns 'brows while showing them all the warmth of a wolverine.
"Nashville Chrome," a novel by Rick Bass, about the Browns 2010
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There's no downside these days to whipping music-industry weasels, and Bass lashes Fabor as a parasite's parasite, living large off the sweat of the Browns 'brows while showing them all the warmth of a wolverine.
"Nashville Chrome," a novel by Rick Bass, about the Browns 2010
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Near the end I did discuss some of our very recent results relating to our CombiUgi project and the synthesis of some compounds about to to be tested for the inhibition of the malarial parasite's enzyme Falcipain-2.
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