Tag: Infectious/Emerging Diseases

Cost-effective technique can detect lower viral loads and reduce false-negative ratesCredit: NYUAD Abu Dhabi - One critical barrier in efforts ...

$1 million to support manufacturing of COVID-19 treatments, vaccines at uOttawa, Ottawa Hospital

Credit: University of Ottawa Researchers from the University of Ottawa and The Ottawa Hospital have been awarded $1,050,000 million from ...

Regenstrief, Indiana CTSI, Datavant partner on NIH national COVID-19 data effort

Credit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS -- Regenstrief Institute, Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) and Datavant are supporting the National ...

Yin and Yang: Two signaling molecules control growth and behavior in bacteria

Credit: University of Basel, Biozentrum Bacteria are considered to be true experts in survival. Their rapid adaptive response to changing ...

Significant psychological toll from New Zealand COVID-19 lockdown

Credit: University of Otago Research has confirmed the nationwide Alert Level 4 COVID-19 lockdown had a significant toll on New ...

Study reveals strategy to create COVID-19 drugs to inhibit virus’s entry and replication

University of South Florida Health-University of Arizona team reports compounds simultaneously targeting Mpro and cathepsin L may improve treatment of ...

LSU health team wins Best 2020 Radiology Image award

Credit: Schachner & Spieler - LSU Health New Orleans New Orleans, LA - AuntMinnie.com awarded Bradley Spieler, MD, Vice Chairman ...

When malaria parasites trick liver cells to let themselves in

New study shows how Plasmodium enters hepatocytesCredit: Andreia Pinto, Comparative Pathology Unit iMM. A new study led by Maria Manuel ...

Vaccine shows promise against herpes virus

New study demonstrates candidate's potential to generate antibodies, limit viral sheddingCredit: Craig Chandler, University of Nebraska-Lincoln A genetically edited form ...

COVID-19: Enzyme targeted by virus also influences gut inflammation

Cedars-Sinai study suggests ACE2, which helps coronavirus invade cells, may be a double-edged swordCredit: Courtesy of the National Institutes of ...

Mystery molecule in bacteria is revealed to be a guard

Unusual structures in bacterial cells keep viral infection from spreading; a list of new ones could provide improved biotech toolsCredit: ...

USask researchers find face masks don’t hinder breathing during exercise

Credit: John Ko SASKATOON - A new University of Saskatchewan (USask) study has found that exercise performance and blood and ...

Tokyo’s voluntary standstill may have stopped COVID-19 in its tracks

Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo Tokyo - Why did Japan largely contain COVID-19 despite famously jam-packed ...

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Prejudice, poverty, gender – illustrations show the reality of living with disease

Community-based research programme leads to innovative 'cartoons'Credit: Sightsavers Illustrations by a local artist in Nigeria are helping health workers and ...

Researchers identify key marker to help speed development of CMV vaccines

The finding provides a surrogate for testing the effectiveness of vaccine candidatesCredit: Jennifer Jenks, Duke University School of Medicine DURHAM, ...

Fighting Zika? Call in the T cells

Stopping emerging viruses could depend on getting T cells and antibodies to work togetherCredit: NIAID LA JOLLA--Where Aedes mosquitoes fly, ...

Physician advocates screening teen emergency room patients for sexually transmitted infections

University of Cincinnati researcher says it will help combat future health complicationsCredit: Photo by Colleen Kelley/University of Cincinnati. A University ...

Scientists find Ebola virus antibodies in people before 2018 DRC outbreak

Exposure to Ebola viruses may be more frequent and widespread than previously thoughtCredit: Tracey Goldstein/UC Davis Scientists found antibodies to ...

Delirium could be an early marker of COVID-19