Tag: Infectious/Emerging Diseases

Credit: UTHealth A deadly superbug that infects an estimated 54,500 Americans a year has a secret weapon, a protein, that ...

Credit: NTU Singapore A team of molecular and structural biologists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have found a ...

Credit: Kanazawa University Pseudomonas putida is a bacterium occuring in soil, aquatic environments and plants. Although the virulence of Pseudomonas ...

Yet transmission-risk misunderstandings persist, finds large NIH-supported studyCredit: NIAID Extensive evidence from HIV prevention research studies has firmly established that ...

Credit: Chan-Higuera et al. Ommochromes, the pigments that colour the skin of squids and other invertebrates, could be used in ...

Credit: World Health Organisation The tropical disease Leishmaniasis is being tackled by catching female sand flies who carry the parasite ...

Credit: Varpu Marjomäki/University of Jyväskylä It has long been suggested that a cell protease could take part in enterovirus infection. ...

Experimental drug found to disrupt genes activated by worm parasite that causes lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis)Credit: University of Maryland School of ...

Researchers have identified a mechanism for HIV-1 spreading that involves viral particles being loaded from one type of cell onto ...

Personalized medicine approach using a human Colon Chip opens up gateway to study mucus barrier functions in patients with intestinal ...

Credit: Dr. Simone Bagnis/University of Plymouth Poor sanitation leads to untreated wastewater entering river systems in many countries where industrialisation ...

Credit: Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) DNA from 75-year old eradicated European malaria parasites uncovers the historical spread of one ...

A TEDDY study led by the University of South Florida has discovered unexpected connections between viruses and T1DCredit: Electron microscopy ...

Credit: Robab Katani, Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- People who eat wildebeests, wart hogs and other wild African animals ...

Study leaders publish results from NIH-DRC-WHO clinical trial of four experimental therapiesCredit: ALIMA The investigational therapeutics mAb114 and REGN-EB3 offer ...

Women account for one-third of the 141,000 new HIV diagnoses in the RegionCredit: ECDC Many women in the WHO European ...

Credit: Columbia University Irving Medical Center SUMMARY: Images show how changes in a specific protein of the malaria parasite are ...

Research reinforces need for frequent hand washingCredit: Washington University School of Medicine Once rare, the superbug methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) ...

Diascopic LLC secures NIH SBIR grant to bring to market their diagnostic platform that incorporates artificial intelligence for digital TB ...

Credit: NIAID WHAT: Scientists have determined that La Crosse virus (LACV), which can cause inflammation of the brain, or encephalitis, ...