Dr. Susan VandeWoude named to the National Academy of Sciences
Credit: William A. Cotton/CSU Photography Dr. Susan VandeWoude learned the news at Dulles Airport while returning from Washington, D.C., on ...
Tag: Infectious/Emerging Diseases
Study presents drug candidate for reversing mucosal barrier damage by HIV
Research in preclinical models suggests that recombinant molecule could act as a topical anti-HIV microbicideCredit: Image courtesy of Raina Fichorova, ...
New research uncovers how life-threatening fungal diseases adapt to survive in humans
A new study from The Westmead Institute for Medical Research has uncovered how serious fungal infections grow in humans by ...
RIT professor develops microfluidic device to better detect Ebola virus
Work done by mechanical engineering professor can be used to pre-screen for the virus A faculty-researcher at Rochester Institute of ...
More than 100 years of data show Pennsylvania tick population shift
Credit: Joyce Sakamoto/Penn State The prevalence of the most abundant species of ticks found in Pennsylvania has shifted over the ...
Drug combination could be effective for treatment-resistant gonorrhea
Scientists comparing treatments for gonorrhoea have identified a drug combination that could be an effective back-up for patients not responding ...
Global disaster experts to gather in Brisbane
The World Association for Disaster and Emergency Management Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine is on in Brisbane, Australia next ...
Topical cream found as less-toxic therapy to treat cutaneous leishmaniasis
Credit: Pascale, et al. (2019) Paromomysin-based topical treatments were shown to be effective in curing cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL), according to ...
Fifteen years of mosquito data implicate species most likely to transmit West Nile virus in Iowa
Credit: Iowa State University News Service AMES, Iowa - A recently published study from Iowa State University medical entomologists found ...
Pathogens find safe harbor deep in the gastric glands
Credit: Connie Fung Scientists have long tried to understand how pathogenic bacteria like Helicobacter pylori, a risk factor for stomach ...
Ragon Institute study identifies viral peptides critical to natural HIV control
T-cell targeting of essential amino acids may underlie spontaneous HIV suppression, define path to a vaccine Investigators at the Ragon ...
Reservoir bugs: Stanford-led study shows why stomach pathogen is so tough to eradicate
The stomach-dwelling bacteria Helicobacter pylori survives in the stomach -- a hellish, churning vat of hydrochloric acid -- by holing ...
Major grant fuels hunt for universal flu vaccine
$30 million award is 2nd largest ever for Cincinnati Children'sCredit: Cincinnati Children's Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center will use a ...
AIDS in America — Back in the headlines at long last
What can the United States learn from africa about HIV epidemic control? May 2, 2019 -- President Trump's recent call ...
Could mouth rinse to detect HPV DNA be associated with predicting risk of head/neck cancer recurrence, death?
Bottom Line: Researchers examined if a mouth rinse to detect human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA might be associated with helping to ...
UVA’s Edward H. Egelman elected to prestigious National Academy of Sciences
Distinguished research career earns him one of science's top honorsCredit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications Edward H. Egelman, PhD, of ...
Researchers ready B cells for novel cell therapy
Credit: Seattle Children's Scientists at Seattle Children's Research Institute are paving the way to use gene-edited B cells -- a ...
International team wins $6M grant to study HIV and tuberculosis coinfection in children
Credit: Charles Scanga PITTSBURGH, May 1, 2019 - About a third of us are walking around with the bacteria that ...
Changing climate may affect animal-to-human disease transfer
Climate change could affect occurrences of diseases like bird-flu and Ebola, with environmental factors playing a larger role than previously ...
Designer drugs to inhibit hepatitis A virus
Credit: Xiangxi Wang Structure-based drug design revealed that a compound previously investigated for the treatment of head-and-neck cancer could function ...