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(Yale University) A protein found in the saliva of ticks helps protect mice from developing Lyme disease, Yale researchers have discovered.

The findings, published in the Nov. 19 issue of Cell Host & Microbe, may spur development of a new vaccine against infection from Lyme disease, which is spread through tick bites.

(Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) A new study of microscopic marine microbes, called phytoplankton, by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of South Carolina has solved a 10-year-old mystery about the source of an essential nutrient in the ocean.

ATLANTA (MedPage Today) -- The CDC and FDA declared an official end today to this summer's seemingly interminable outbreak of Salmonella Saintpaul infection, but questions lingered about whether the hunt for the index microbe was slow and slipshod.