Tag: Disease in the Developing World

InDevR launches first-in-class reagent kit for rapid quantification of N9 in 'pandemic' influenza vaccinesCredit: InDevR BOULDER COLORADO (3/26/19) -- InDevR ...

While current therapies for HIV can successfully manage active infection, the virus can survive in tissue reservoirs, including macrophage cells, ...

Parasitic worms cause cancer -- and could help cure it Billions worldwide are infected with tropical worms. Unsurprisingly, most of ...

Credit: Beerli TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A sophisticated new analysis tool developed by Florida State University scientists may signal a new ...

Credit: Heung 2019 Immune cells called inflammatory monocytes are often one of the first responders to infections, but they actually ...

Credit: Emmanuel Arthur, 2019 (CC BY 4.0) Urogenital schistosomiasis (US), a chronic parasitic disease, is endemic in Ghana and policymakers ...

Few novel drugs have been developed to treat neglected diseases in recent decades, Brazilian researchers warnCredit: Miguel Boyayan / Pesquisa ...

Synthetic biology-based diagnostic platform enables low-cost, highly sensitive detection of nucleic acids in a wide range of settings Harvard University ...

Tuberculosis can be treated, prevented and cured, yet it kills 1.6 million people a year, more people than any other ...

Credit: Dennis Kunkel, Sarah Bordenstein and Robert Brucker WOODS HOLE, Mass. — Controlling mosquito-borne illnesses, such as Dengue or West ...

'Chronoprints' can identify a sample from a video taken as it reacts to disturbance If we could tell authentic from ...

Researchers first needed to know if virus could be detected in fecesCredit: Courtesy Krista Milich Most emerging infectious diseases affecting ...

Study funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation shows blood test and mathematical model can accurately identify preterm babies without ...

Interactive maps can guide surveillance efforts, protect human healthCredit: Carol Blyberg (Millbrook, NY) In the Americas, primate species likely to ...

Collaboration explores opportunities to set up antibiotic discovery and development platform and establish a joint pipeline of novel antibiotic assets. ...

Licensing agreement puts DeepChek®-TB one step closer to clinical application FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., and LUXEMBOURG CITY, Luxembourg -- March 18, 2019 ...

Credit: The University of Queensland Scientists looking at the genetics of Zika virus have found a way to fast-track research ...

Fighting maladiesCredit: UT Arlington A University of Texas at Arlington College of Nursing and Health Innovation professor will use a ...

Credit: Conor Ashleigh, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, (CC BY 2.0, 2012) Recently, the sensitivity of fecal microbiological cultures ...

Wits University in South Africa has collaborated in a project with Oxford University to test a United Nations development approach ...