Septin proteins act as cellular police to identify, imprison and kill 'superbug' Shigella
Ground-breaking discovery reveals new clues to stop the spread of deadly infections Using state-of-the art technologies to image human cells ...
Tag: Infectious/Emerging Diseases
Drug targets for Ebola, Dengue, and Zika viruses found in lab study
Insight into how three of the world's most devastating viruses interact with human cells opens the door for much-needed treatments ...
Ebola-fighting protein discovered in human cells
Drug that mimics function of protein could one day become an effective therapy to fight Ebola virusCredit: Northwestern University Human ...
Baylor College of Medicine faculty elected National Academy of Inventors fellows
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Drs. Mary K. Estes, Bert O'Malley and Huda Zoghbi of Baylor College of Medicine were ...
Researchers discover new interactions between Ebola virus and human proteins
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Several new connections have been discovered between the proteins of the Ebola virus and human host ...
Potential range for new invasive tick covers much of eastern US
Asian longhorned tick could find plenty of suitable habitat in North America similar to its native regionCredit: Ilia Rochlin, Ph.D., ...
Control HIV by treating schistosomiasis, new study suggests
Credit: Wetzel and Shaefer, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain, 2001 Of the 34 million people worldwide with HIV, and the 200 ...
Building an AI to predict if you carry a killer on your skin
Staphylococcus epidermidis is an ubiquitous colonizer of healthy human skin, but it is also a notorious source of serious nosocomial ...
HIV vaccine protects non-human primates from infection
LA JOLLA, CA - For more than 20 years, scientists at Scripps Research have chipped away at the challenges of ...
Exploring ways to reduce child deaths in low-income countries
A simple algorithm could contribute to reducing the high mortality among newborns and babies in the month following their hospital ...
Half a million tests and many mosquitoes later, new buzz about a malaria prevention drug
Researchers tested chemical compounds for their ability to inhibit the malaria parasite at an earlier lifecycle stage than most current ...
Interventions in dog populations could reduce rabies in rural China
Credit: Tian H, et al. (2018) Domestic dogs play a key role in the transmission and expansion of rabies in ...
Strep bacteria compete for 'ownership' of human tissue
Credit: NYU Langone Health A well-accepted principle in the animal kingdom--from wasps to deer--is that creatures already occupying a habitat ...
An ancient strain of plague may have led to the decline of Neolithic Europeans
Credit: Karl-Göran Sjögren / University of Gothenburg A team of researchers from France, Sweden, and Denmark have identified a new ...
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