Neuroscience seminar highlights technologies for brain injuries, vaccines
Credit: Purdue University/Chris Adam WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The same technology that helps treat traumatic brain injuries in athletes and ...
Tag: Infectious/Emerging Diseases
‘Mop up’ malaria vaccine advances to trials in people
When mosquitos ingest the blood of a person who has malaria but who has received the vaccine, they can no ...
Scientists discover new genetic disease that delays brain development in children
Credit: Gretel Nicholson, EXRC Scientists have discovered a new genetic disease, which causes some children's brains to develop abnormally, resulting ...
High-fiber diet may play a role in controlling the inflammation associated with COVID-19
In vitro treatment of cells with these molecules reduced the expression of a gene that plays a key role in ...
Everyone poops: Monitoring COVID-19 in wastewater
University of Missouri scientists receive $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to examine clues about the rate ...
Herpesvirus triggers cervical cancer affecting nearly 1 in 4 adult sea lions
Sea lions are critical model for understanding how cancer develops, parallels to human cancer researchCredit: Credit © The Marine Mammal ...
Anti-inflammatory drug protects against lethal inflammation from COVID-19 in animal models
Credit: Mount Sinai Health System Mount Sinai researchers have found that a widely available and inexpensive drug targeting inflammatory genes ...
Viewing the virus close up
Technology project with Heidelberg participation wants to develop compact cell-imaging for extensive applicationCredit: Venera Weinhardt How do viral pathogens succeed ...
COVID-19 pandemic has led to more advanced-stage cancer diagnoses, physician survey finds
Credit: American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) ARLINGTON, Va., March 30, 2021 -- Doctors who oversee cancer clinics say that ...
T cells recognize recent SARS-CoV-2 variants
NIAID research suggests protective effects of vaccination remain intactCredit: NIAID WHAT: When variants of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) ...
Mysteries of malaria infections deepen after human trial study
Scientists have discovered that tracking malaria as it develops in humans is a powerful way to detect how the malaria ...
Factors that may predict next pandemic
Climate change associated with emerging disease spreadCredit: Singh et al. Humans are creating or exacerbating the environmental conditions that could ...
Chronic viral infections can have lasting effects on human immunity, similar to aging
Researchers identify signatures of immune dysfunction that are shared in aging and chronic viral infections of HIV and Hepatitis CCredit: ...
NIST develops privacy-preserving ‘encounter metrics’ that could slow down future pandemics
Credit: B. Hayes/NIST When you bump into someone in the workplace or at your local coffee shop, you might call ...
Differences in herpes virus symptoms may relate to variations in strain gene expression
Credit: Colleen Mangold, Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Why do some people with cold sores around their lips experience ...
Scientists urge swift action to prepare for next pandemic
Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications An international team of researchers led by a University of Virginia School of Medicine ...
Scientists identify virus-cell interaction that may explain COVID-19’s high infection rate
Lehigh researchers quantify the specific interaction between the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 -- the virus that causes COVID-19 -- with ...
University of Ottawa receives $9 million from CIHR to track COVID-19 variants of concern
Project spearheaded by Faculty of Medicine researcher to create a Canadian network for better researching and responding to the global ...
Insights on operationalizing COVID-19 monoclonal antibody treatment
Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, March 26, 2021 - As evidence mounts supporting the use of monoclonal antibody treatment to reduce hospitalizations ...
UTEP helps optimize COVID-19 vaccination clinics in the U.S.
Credit: J.R. Hernandez / UTEP Communications EL PASO, Texas - Sreenath Chalil Madathil, Ph.D., assistant professor in industrial manufacturing and ...
