Treatment Possibility Discovered Following Study On Toxin That Tainted Spinach

A discovery by University at Buffalo biologists that may explain the evolution of a lethal toxin is providing new information that could lead to more effective treatments for humans who fall victim to it.The toxin, known as Shiga toxin, is the same one found last year in bagged spinach that was implicated in the deaths of five people and illnesses involving hundreds more.The UB research on “Shiga Toxin Toxicity and Resistance in Tetrahymena,” presented Dec. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Biology on December 6th, 2007