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• How a versatile gut bacterium helps us get our daily dietary fiber
• Overexpression of splicing protein in skin repair causes early changes seen in skin cancer
• Decoded: DNA of blood-sucking worm that infects world's poor
• Scientists reveal steps leading to necrotizing fasciitis

How a versatile gut bacterium helps us get our daily dietary fiber Posted: 19 Jan 2014 11:25 AM PST Researchers have discovered the genetic machinery that turns a common gut bacterium into the Swiss Army knife of the digestive tract -- helping us metabolize a main component of dietary fiber from the cell walls of fruits and vegetables.

Overexpression of splicing protein in skin repair causes early changes seen in skin cancer Posted: 19 Jan 2014 11:24 AM PST In a paper published, a team reports that a protein they show is normally involved in healing wounds and maintaining homeostasis in skin tissue is also, under certain conditions, a promoter of invasive and metastatic skin cancers.

Decoded: DNA of blood-sucking worm that infects world's poor Posted: 19 Jan 2014 11:23 AM PST Researchers have decoded the genome of the hookworm, Necator americanus, finding clues to how it infects and survives in humans and to aid in development of new therapies to combat hookworm disease.

Scientists reveal steps leading to necrotizing fasciitis Posted: 16 Jan 2014 10:08 AM PST Researchers have discovered the mechanism by which Streptococcus pyogenes, or Group A streptococcus bacteria, cause life-threatening diseases such as necrotizing fasciitis (commonly known as flesh-eating disease) and streptococcal toxic shock syndrome. This opens the door to possible future treatments to curb this and other potentially fatal bacteria.

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