Study sees rise in U.S. colitis cases

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U.S. researchers said on Monday, a common infection that causes diarrhea may be to blame for the nearly doubled incidence of a certain kind of colitis.

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Viral activation and recruitment of metacaspases in the unicellular coccolithophore, Emiliania huxleyi

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Lytic viral infection and programmed cell death (PCD) are thought to represent two distinct death mechanisms in phytoplankton, unicellular photoautotrophs that drift with ocean currents. Here, we demonstrate an interaction between autocatalytic PCD and lytic viral infection in the cosmopolitan coccolithophorid, Emiliania huxleyi. Successful infection of E

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