NTU scientists discover new way to promote insulin production in pre-diabetes phase
Credit: NTU Singapore Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) scientists have discovered that a type of immune cell known as ...
Tag: Disease in the Developing World
Breakthrough in malaria research
Credit: Institut für Zellbiologie, Universität Bern Despite great efforts in medicine and science, more than 400,000 people worldwide are still ...
Scientists spearhead ‘major step forward’ for malaria vaccine
Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Researchers have narrowed down the malaria proteins and disease-fighting antibodies that could be used ...
‘Give me the calcium!’ Tulane virus takes over cellular calcium signaling to replicate
Credit: The Hyser lab Some gastrointestinal viruses need calcium. They need calcium ions to carry out several essential aspects of ...
Study vaccine protects monkeys against four types of hemorrhagic fever viruses
Credit: University of Texas Medical Branch WHAT: Scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health have developed an investigational vaccine ...
Mated female mosquitoes are more likely to transmit malaria parasites
Credit: Jim Gathany-CDC, Flickr (CC-BY) Female mosquitoes that have mated are more likely to transmit malaria parasites than virgin females, ...
Russian biotechnology company BIOCAD announced plans to enter the EU market
/Frankfurt/ CPhI-2019 became the first large-scale international platform to present the BIOCAD's latest original drugs based on monoclonal antibodies -- ...
New transmission model for Ebola predicted Uganda cases
Credit: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, KANSAS -- A new risk assessment model for the transmission of Ebola accurately predicted its ...
Otago researchers partner in vaccine project to tackle major killer of African children
Credit: University of Otago A team of University of Otago researchers is part of a major new international vaccine research ...
Malaria parasite lives on the edge
Risky strategy prepares the parasite for the unexpected but could be exploited to fight the deadly diseaseCredit: Penn State The ...
Bats in Northeast India carry filoviruses that can infect humans
Credit: Dr Zavei Hiese Researchers have proposed that bats are the natural reservoir of filoviruses, including highly fatal Ebola and ...
Measles virus infection destroys immune system memory
Credit: G. Xu et al./Science 2015 Measles is more harmful than scientists once suspected. An analysis of blood from 77 ...
NIH contract to CWRU, UH to accelerate TB vaccine development
$30 million contract will establish TB immunology research centers across the countryCredit: Case Western Reserve University CLEVELAND (October 23, 2019)--Tuberculosis ...
IQSEC1 gene mutations cause new intellectual disability syndrome
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine It used to take several years or sometimes decades to unequivocally identify the genes that ...
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