Tag: Infectious/Emerging Diseases

The finding suggests a novel method for preventing skin cancer in high-risk patients using a vaccine to boost the immune ...

Malaria pathogen under the X-ray microscope

Credit: S. Kapishnikov Around 40 percent of humanity lives in regions affected by malaria, around 200 million people contract the ...

Collaboration with Texas Biomed, SwRI and UT Health San Antonio targets bladder cancer

New grant funds innovative approach to treatmentCredit: Texas Biomedical Research Institute San Antonio, Texas (October 30, 2019) - The San ...

How Chlamydia gain access to human cells

Publication in Nature CommunicationsCredit: HHU / Jan Galle Chlamydia are bacteria that can infect human and animal cells. Human health ...

New insight on how bacteria evolve drug resistance could lead to improved antibiotic therapies

October 29, 2019

Exploiting a strategy known as collateral sensitivity in bacteria could lead to the development of novel and sustainable treatmentsCredit: Barbosa ...

Study finds inflammatory protein can protect against spread of herpes virus

October 28, 2019

Credit: Photo by Tabbitha Mosier PHOENIX - Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix have discovered ...

Scientists are developing a way to counter ulcerative colitis

October 28, 2019

KBFU center for clinical research scientists have participated in the international VARSITY clinical researchCredit: Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Scientists ...

Influenza human challenge study begins at NIAID-sponsored clinical trial units

Credit: NIH A clinical trial in which healthy adults will be deliberately infected with influenza virus under carefully controlled conditions ...

A weapon to make a superbug to become more deadly

Professor Chen and his team carried out experiments to compare the survival rates of the mice infected with different bacterial ...

Pathogens from the sea

A marine pathogenic bacterium forms specialized cells for disseminationCredit: MPI f. terrestrial Microbiology/ Ringaard Vibrio parahaemolyticus can be found in ...

Antibiotics with novel mechanism of action discovered

Credit: Matthias Urfer, UZH The rapid emergence of antimicrobial resistance is a matter of global concern. According to the World ...

Bacterial lifestyle alters the evolution of antibiotic resistance

Credit: Vaughn Cooper, Ph.D. PITTSBURGH, Oct. 23, 2019 - How bacteria live -- whether as independent cells or in a ...

NIH contract to CWRU, UH to accelerate TB vaccine development

$30 million contract will establish TB immunology research centers across the countryCredit: Case Western Reserve University CLEVELAND (October 23, 2019)--Tuberculosis ...

Ending HIV will require optimizing treatment and prevention tools, say NIH experts