Editor’s Selections: Blood clot, flow and slip, parasites in the brain, and spirochetes unwound
December 11th, 2009 Editor's Selections No Comments
Vincent Racaniello selects several notable posts each week from molecular and cellular biology and virology. He blogs at virology blog.
- Coronary artery diseases are a result of formation of plaque in our arteries that block blood transport. To understand this requires knowledge of how cells in the blood influence its flow.
- Is insanity due to a microbe? Toxoplasma gondii, which makes rodents become sexually attracted to cats, has been implicated in schizophrenia.
- Lyme arthritis results when Borrelia burgdorferi introduced by a tick ends up in the joints. Arthritis can persist even after the bacteria are cleared, a consequence of autoimmune attack associated with variants of genes encoding the MHC type II complex.
I’ll be back next Friday with more selections.
