Fighting the herpes virus
Credit: Felix Petermann, MDC New insights into preventing herpes infections have been published in Nature Communications. Researchers from the Berlin ...
Tag: Infectious/Emerging Diseases
Broadly protective antibodies could lead to better flu treatments and vaccines
Credit: NIAID WHAT: A newly identified set of three antibodies could lead to better treatments and vaccines against influenza, according ...
Tuberculous infection is not life-long in most people
Penn-led study suggested majority will not develop disease even if test shows positive resultsCredit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - A new ...
Los Alamos AI model wins flu forecasting challenge
'Dante' beat 23 others in predicting the timing, peak, and short-term intensity of the unfolding 2018-2019 flu season. Enhanced version ...
Transient and long-term disruption of gut microbes after antibiotics
Antibiotic treatment can disrupt the gut microbiome at the strain level, with changes lasting as long as 6 monthsCredit: UAB ...
UM School Of Medicine’s Kathleen Neuzil elected to National Academy of Medicine
Dr. Neuzil has played an important leadership role in bridging science and policy to serve the world's most vulnerable populationsCredit: ...
Immune reaction causes malaria organ damage
Immune cells can be the body's defenders and foes at the same timeCredit: MPIIB/ Volker Brinkmann Malaria is one of ...
Resistance to antibiotics doubles in 20 years, new study finds
Credit: UEG (Barcelona, October 21, 2019) Resistance to commonly-used antibiotics for treating harmful bacteria related to a variety of stomach ...
Why the flu is more deadly in those with diabetes
Researchers outlined immune dysfunction in mice that leads to more severe respiratory infections in those with diabetesCredit: University of Maryland ...
Candidate Ebola vaccine still effective when highly diluted, macaque study finds
Scientists hope findings mean vaccine supplies could stretch fartherCredit: NIAID WHAT: A single dose of a highly diluted VSV-Ebola virus ...
Scientists work toward a rapid point-of-care diagnostic test for Lyme disease
Credit: NIAID WHAT: A study published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology describes a new rapid assay for Lyme disease ...
NIH scientists develop test for uncommon brain diseases
Samples of cerebrospinal fluid used to detect tauopathiesCredit: NIAID WHAT: National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists have developed an ultrasensitive ...
Nanomesh drug delivery provides hope against global antibiotic resistance
The fight against antibiotic resistance takes a major step forward with scientists discovering a concept for fabricating nanomeshes as drug ...
In Baltimore, lower income neighborhoods have bigger mosquitoes
Larger mosquitoes better at transmitting disease, put residents at riskCredit: CDC (Millbrook, NY) Low-income urban neighborhoods not only have more ...
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