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Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Medical Management of the Adult Patient with Congenital Heart Disease In the current issue of Cardiovascular Innovations...

Drug resistance genes shared among bacteria in hospitals can be deadly

June 10, 2018 - Atlanta, GA - A hospital outbreak of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) became more worrisome when researchers found...

Development of vaccines from AIDS to Zika, using a novel ‘plug and play’ viral platform

June 10, 2018 - Atlanta, GA - Researchers from GeoVax have developed a flexible "Plug and Play" technology platform that...

Treg cells protect babies from getting HIV infection from their mothers

June 10, 2018 - Atlanta, GA - Scientists now report that Treg cells, a type of regulatory lymphocyte, may be...

Bacteriophages: Are they an overlooked driver of Parkinson’s disease?

June 10, 2018 - Atlanta, GA - In the first study of its kind, researchers from the New York-based Human...

The Fontan circulation

In the current issue of Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications (Volume3, Number 1, 2018, pp. pp. 107-122(X); DOI: 10.15212/CVIA.2017.0041, researchers Ahmed...

The adult ventricular septum; a unique portion of the left and right ventricle

In the current issue of Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications (Volume3, Number 1, 2018, pp. pp. 93-95(3); DOI: 10.15212/CVIA.2017.0023, C. Richard...

D-Transposition of the great arteries: a new era in cardiology

In the current issue of Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications (Volume3, Number 1, 2018, pp. pp. 85-92(8); DOI: 10.15212/CVIA.2017.0037, Angeline D....

Weekly injections of PRO 140 in combination with optimized ART shows HIV-1 viral suppression

June 9, 2018 - Atlanta, GA - Results from a pivotal trial of PRO 140, a new HIV therapy, show...

First look at the new 2018 European guidelines for the treatment of high blood pressure

Barcelona June 9, 2018 - A first look at the new European Guidelines for the treatment of high blood pressure...

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria found in the US presents a triple threat

June 9, 2018 - Atlanta, GA - Researchers from the Emory Antibiotic Resistance Center describe the first strain of carbapenem-resistant,...

Kitchen towels could contribute to the growth of potential pathogens that cause food poisoning

June 9, 2018 - Atlanta, GA - Researchers from the University of Mauritius have shown that factors such as family...

Oldest plague bacteria genome analyzed by Russian-German team

The team comprised researchers from Kazan Federal University and Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. The bacteria...

Colistin-resistant multidrug-resistant bacteria pervasive in rural Vietnam town

June 9, 2018 - Atlanta, GA - A new study has found that the majority of residents in a rural...

Bifidobacteria supplement colonizes gut of breastfed infants

Supplementing breastfed infants with activated Bifidobacterium infantis (B. infantis) bacteria had a positive impact on babies' gut microbes for up...

A new way to measure energy in microscopic machines

Credit: NIST What drives cells to live and engines to move? It all comes down to a quantity that scientists...

A webcam is enough to produce a real-time 3D model of a moving hand

Credit: Oliver Dietze For the first time, the researchers will be presenting the program at stand G75 in hall 27...

Ten thousand bursting genes

Credit: Cai laboratory / Cell A breakthrough new technique enables scientists to image 10,421 genes at once within individual cells....

New insight into why Pierce’s disease is so deadly to grapevines