Could our immune system be why COVID-19 is so deadly?
Credit: Earlham Institute Respiratory viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 (causing COVID-19) can often catalyse an overactive immune response that leads to ...
Tag: Infectious/Emerging Diseases
Covid-19: How to do lockdown? Russian scientists may have an answer
Researchers modified the existing SIR class pandemic prediction model.Credit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University A painful tradeoff between a ...
Research reveals how bacteria defeat drugs that fight cystic fibrosis
Credit: UM photo MISSOULA - University of Montana researchers and their partners have discovered a slimy strategy used by bacteria ...
SARS-CoV-2 mutations in competition
Credit: © IVI Prior to the emergence of new mutants of the coronavirus, such as the British variant B.1.1.7, the ...
Lethal house lures reduce incidence of malaria in children
Credit: Daniel Lesher, Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- A new type of housing modification can reduce malaria incidence among ...
Openly available toolkit to help lab-based coronavirus research
Credit: Image by RAEng_Publications from Pixabay, CC0 The rapid onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, which is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 ...
UTEP survey reveals hidden health and wellness benefits of COVID-19 pandemic
Credit: UTEP Communications. EL PASO, Texas - A study by physiology researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso ...
New ONC, NLM funding supports data exchange and response to COVID-19 pandemic
Credit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS -- LOINC® at Regenstrief, an international health data standard critical to health information exchange, has received ...
NIH awards UC San Diego $33 million for five COVID-19 diagnostic projects
Efforts range from managing a large data center to expanding testing in disadvantaged communitiesCredit: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego University of ...
New saliva tests rolled-out to hospital staff to cut COVID transmission rates
Credit: Earlham Institute (EI) Frontline staff at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals (NNUH) are among the first in the country ...
Professor developing indoor COVID-19 detector
Gerardine Botte received a grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to work on the project.Credit: Texas Tech University Carbon ...
Study estimates two-thirds of COVID-19 hospitalizations due to four conditions
Model suggests higher risk based on race and age, offers insights to reduce disease impactCredit: Gerald J. and Dorothy R. ...
Scientists reveal details of antibodies that work against Zika virus
Research from the California Institute of Technology shows exactly how antibodies stick to and block the Zika virus, which will ...
Sulfur: the consequences
How sulfur metabolism may have paved the way for the evolution of multicellularityCredit: © MPI of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, B. ...
Human lung and brain organoids respond differently to SARS-CoV-2 infection in lab tests
Findings may help explain the wide variety in COVID-19 symptoms and aid search for therapiesCredit: UC San Diego Health Sciences ...
COVID-19 vaccination axillary adenopathy detected during breast imaging
Open-access AJR article details clinical and imaging features of adenopathy detected during screening and diagnostic breast mammography, ultrasound, and MRI ...
MUSC researcher awarded $9.9 million for tuberculosis treatment and prevention
Credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Susan Dorman, M.D., an infectious disease physician at the Medical University of South ...
Monoclonal antibodies against MERS coronavirus show promise in phase 1 NIH-sponsored trial
Credit: NIAID and Colorado State University WHAT: A randomized, placebo-controlled Phase 1 clinical trial of two monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) directed ...
Mouse study shows bacteriophage therapy could fight drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae
Credit: NIAID WHAT: Using viruses instead of antibiotics to tame troublesome drug-resistant bacteria is a promising strategy, known as bacteriophage ...
Global Virus Network names USF Health the GVN Southeast US Regional Headquarters
The University of South Florida Health is the first regional headquarters named by Global Virus Network to support the coalition's ...