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. Opina and Wayne J. Franklin...
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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 Conti and John W. Petersen...
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 Kheiwa, Anushree Agarwal and Anitha...
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 Microbiology Institute have discovered the...
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 protecting babies in the womb...
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 delivers single-dose vaccines that fully...
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 resistance genes being shared among...
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 were retrieved from a mass...
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 to a year, according to...
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 village of Vietnam harbored multi-drug-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 size, type of diet, multi-usage...
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, hypermucoviscous Klebsiella pneumoniae exhibiting colistin...
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 was presented at the European...
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 that PRO 140 is an...
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 call "free energy," essentially the...
