Collaboration to identify new disease resistance in tomato : cornell

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Collaboration to identify new disease resistance in tomato

Collaboration to identify new disease resistance in tomato

Collaboration to identify new disease resistance in tomatoGreg Martin/ProvidedCornell researchers have been awarded $4.2 million by the National Science Foundation to explore natural genetic variation in the tomato immune system and to use the findings to improve crops in the $1.4 billion annual domestic tomato industry.The disease bacterial speck, caused by the bacterium Pseudomonas syringae pv.tomato, decreases the marketability and yield of fresh-market and processing tomatoes.More than 20 years of research on tomato immunity and P. syringae virulence at Cornell has resulted in a deep understanding of the molecular players controlling disease resistance and susceptibility.


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Data mapping is being used to cure disease at IBM's new research lab in the Tshimologong innovation precinct in Johannesburg — Quartz

Data mapping is being used to cure disease at IBM's new research lab in the Tshimologong innovation precinct in Johannesburg — Quartz

In a newly built innovation hub on Johannesburg's trendiest block, 20 young scientists from eight different countries stare intently at their computers in a hackathon unlike any other.The code they're trying to crack isn't the password of a high-ranking official or executive's email.Their cause is much more noble: they're trying to figure out how to beat the deadly, drug-resistant malaria that has become a global scourge.The hackers are working to understand why a strain of malaria in southeast Asia is developing a resistance to artemisinin-based drugs—so far the most successful treatment for the disease that killed 438,000 people in 2015, with 90% of them in Africa, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).


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Enzyme deficiency in Krabbe's disease may point to new mechanisms underlying Parkinson's disease

Enzyme deficiency in Krabbe's disease may point to new mechanisms underlying Parkinson's disease

A new article suggests that an enzyme deficiency seen in the lysosomal storage disorder Krabbe's disease may point to new mechanisms underlying certain late-onset neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease.Patients with Krabbe's disease lack galactosylceramidase, which is needed to make the protective myelin coating around nerve cells.Unfortunately, there is currently no cure, and most infants with the degenerative disorder die at a very young age."It's been established that mutations to lysosomal enzymes, as present in Gaucher disease, can be a strong genetic risk factor for Parkinson's disease.