Tag: Infectious/Emerging Diseases

Credit: Jay Hinton group, University of Liverpool Scientists at the University of Liverpool have taken another step forward in understanding ...

Summit highlights caribbean disaster preparedness and collaboration to strengthen resilience

Caribbean Strong: Building Resilience with Equity "Caribbean Strong: Building Resilience with Equity" will take place on February 27-March 1, 2019, ...

How Candida albicans exploits lack of oxygen to cause disease

Credit: The image was acquired at the Umeå Core Facility for Electron Microscopy (UCEM) journal MBio, a publication of the ...

Herpes viruses and tumors evolved to learn how to manipulate the same ancient RNA

Findings could have implications for drugs and insight into diseases like Alzheimer's (New York, NY - January 14, 2019) -- ...

Clinical trial testing fecal microbiota transplant for recurrent diarrheal disease begins

Credit: Janice Carr. (Image provided by CDC/Lois S. Wiggs) A research consortium recently began enrolling patients in a clinical trial ...

Gene-editing tool CRISPR/Cas9 shown to limit impact of certain parasitic diseases

GW researchers successfully used CRISPR/Cas9 to limit the impact of schistosomiasis and liver fluke infection, affecting more than a quarter ...

EU and Canada award 8.65 million to project to ease genomic and health data sharing

New collaborative international project, headed by Bar-Ilan University, aims to promote human immunological data storage, integration and controlled sharing to ...

JAMA report outlines recommendations for evaluation and management of penicillin allergy

Verifying the accuracy of a documented penicillin allergy can improve treatment outcomes, avoid spread of antibiotic resistance While more than ...

Experimental antibody 'cocktail' protects animals from three deadly Ebola viruses

Scientists from academia, industry, and government have developed a combination of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) that protected animals from all three ...

Madariaga virus spreads to Haiti

A PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases press releaseCredit: Morris, et al. (2019) Madariaga virus (MADV), or South American eastern equine encephalitis ...

The science is clear: with HIV, undetectable equals untransmittable

NIH officials discuss scientific evidence and principles underlying the U=U conceptCredit: NIAID WHAT: In recent years, an overwhelming body of ...

New strategy may curtail spread of antibiotic resistance

Study identifies key step in spread of drug resistance, opportunity for intervention Spotless surfaces in hospitals can hide bacteria that ...

Turbocharger for the cell machinery

Credit: DCB, University of Bern. The classic molecular-biological narrative has a simple form: Gene-RNA-protein. This is what we learned in ...

Lung neuropeptide exacerbates lethal influenza virus infection

Researchers find that neuropeptide Y (NPY) makes influenza worse when produced by lung immune cells Osaka, Japan - Severe influenza ...

Danish malaria vaccine passes test in humans

For many years, a team of researchers at the University of Copenhagen have been focussing on developing a vaccine that ...

Scientists develop universal Ebola treatment effective in single dose

GALVESTON, Texas - There is a new medication that in one dose successfully protected nonhuman primates against a lethal infection ...

UTSA microbiologist Floyd Wormley elected AAAS Fellow

Credit: UTSA (San Antonio, Jan. 09, 2019) -- Floyd L. Wormley Jr., the Microsoft President's Endowed Professor in the UTSA ...

Schizophrenia linked with abnormal immune response to Epstein-Barr virus

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New research from Johns Hopkins Medicine and Sheppard Pratt Health System shows that people in the study ...

Research explains public resistance to vaccination

Same force that influences economics and physics complicates efforts to prevent diseaseCredit: Figure courtesy of Feng Fu and Xingru Chen. ...

First-in-class DNA-encoded monoclonal antibody therapy rapidly advances into the clinic