Tag: Infectious/Emerging Diseases

Credit: Virginia Tech Virginia Tech biochemist Brandon Jutras has discovered the cellular component that contributes to Lyme arthritis, a debilitating ...

How to reinvigorate exhausted immune cells and stop cancer along the way

Penn study identifies protein that could be key to new immunotherapies PHILADELPHIA - The human immune system relies on a ...

Poor oral health linked to a 75% increase in liver cancer risk, new study finds

The study, by researchers at Queen's University Belfast, analysed a large cohort of over 469,000 people in the UK, investigated ...

Preventing hepatitis C transmission from mothers to babies

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission from mothers to babies could largely be prevented if Canada recommended universal screening for HCV ...

Pew funds 22 scientists to pursue innovative biomedical research

PHILADELPHIA--The Pew Charitable Trusts today announced 22 early-career researchers who have been selected to join the Pew Scholars Program in ...

International experts call for action for world's 450 million scabies sufferers

The public health control of scabies: priorities for research and actionCredit: Dr Millicent Osti, MCRI An alignment of researchers, health ...

Pew funds biomedical research for 10 Latin American scientists

PHILADELPHIA--The Pew Charitable Trusts today announced the 2019 class members of the Pew Latin American Fellows Program in the Biomedical ...

NIAID scientists develop ‘mini-brain’ model of human prion disease

Credit: NIAID WHAT: National Institutes of Health scientists have used human skin cells to create what they believe is the ...

Half of Ebola outbreaks go undetected, study finds

Half of Ebola outbreaks have gone undetected since the virus was discovered in 1976, scientists at the University of Cambridge ...

Mutant bacterial receptor could point to new therapies against opportunistic pathogen

Credit: McCready AR, et al. (2019) Researchers have developed a new mutant version of a receptor used by a bacterial ...

Salmonella resistant to antibiotics of last resort found in US

Researchers from North Carolina State University have found a gene that gives Salmonella resistance to antibiotics of last resort in ...

Half of Ebola outbreaks undetected

Small outbreaks treated locally and undetected by public health infrastructure An estimated half of Ebola virus disease outbreaks have gone ...

Deadly tick-borne virus cured with experimental flu drug, in mice

Bourbon virus has sickened people in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma Only a few cases of the newly discovered Bourbon virus have ...

Once thought to be asexual, single-celled parasites caught in the act

Studying Leishmania parasites' offspring could lead to improved treatment for deadly infectionsCredit: Michael Worful Even single-celled organisms desire partners every ...

Expansion microscopy and virtual reality illuminate new ways to prevent and treat disease

Innovation enables better visualization and interpretation of data from cell microscopyCredit: Carnegie Mellon University/Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason A ...

Breaking the code: How is a mother's immunity transferred to her baby?

Ragon Institute-led study identifies factors contributing to placental transfer of antibodies One of the most successful interventions in reducing infectious ...

Identification of protective antibodies may be key to effective malaria vaccine

An Oxford-led study has identified the antibodies that may hold the key to creating the first effective vaccine against malaria ...

New insight could improve maternal vaccines that also protect newborns

Understanding how a mother's antibodies are passed to the fetus is key to vaccine design DURHAM, N.C. - A team ...

Making it personal: How genetic technologies are changing the face of medicine

For the future of medicine, clinicians and scientists at Children's Hospital Los Angeles look to our genes The age of ...

Researcher identifies adjuvant that prevents vaccine-enhanced respiratory disease in RSV