Tag: Infectious/Emerging Diseases

May 14, 2021

Better designed vaccines for insect-spread viruses like dengue and Zika now possibleCredit: Associate Professor Fasseli Coulibaly Better designed vaccines for ...

A Z-RNA nanoswitch encoded by “junk DNA” turns-off immune responses against self

Left-hand RNA and self-recognitionCredit: Alan Herbert In a paper published in the May 13th, 2021 issue of PLOS Genetics, a ...

To prevent next pandemic, scientists say we must regulate air like food and water

Credit: Martin Visser, Unsplash Humans in the 21st century spend most of their time indoors, but the air we breathe ...

Treating the COVID-19 ‘infodemic’ as an epidemic

Ticking upward: MU researcher studies rise of tick-borne diseases in Midwest

Credit: University of Missouri COLUMBIA, Mo. - When Ram Raghavan heard from a former colleague at the Centers for Disease ...

UMD awarded funds to head off tick-borne infection before it begins

Research represents one of many funding sources dedicated to translational research to develop therapeutics and vaccines and reduce the burden ...

Australia accelerates new COVID-19 vaccine to fight mutant strains

Credit: University of South Australia A leading South Australian immunologist has been awarded $3 million from the Federal Government to ...

Jab-free dengue immunity could be just a click away

Credit: The University of Queensland A dengue virus vaccine candidate has passed an important milestone, with promising results in animal ...

No lasting benefit to tubes over antibiotics for childhood ear infections

Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, May 12, 2021 - There is no long-term benefit to surgically placing tympanostomy tubes in a young ...

Research reveals ancient people had more diverse gut microorganisms

Credit: UM photo by Tommy Martino MISSOULA - Only an anthropologist would treasure millennia-old human feces found in dry caves. ...

COVID-19 is not influenza, but it offers lessons on beating it, say Concordia researchers

The absence of a 2020-21 flu season shows how effective simple public health measures are at limiting virus transmissionCredit: Concordia ...

UCLA scientists decode the ‘language’ of immune cells

The advance, researchers say, is like the discovery of the Rosetta stone and could eventually lead to new treatments for ...

Using ultrasound stimulation to reduce inflammation in COVID-19 in-patients

Credit: Photo courtesy of SecondWave Systems. Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have begun a pilot ...

Rapid COVID-19 diagnostic test delivers results within 4 minutes with 90 percent accuracy