Tag: Infectious/Emerging Diseases

Credit: Markus Marcetic Researchers may have come one step closer toward understanding how the immune system contributes to severe COVID-19. ...

Nasal vaccine against COVID-19 prevents infection in mice

Nasal delivery produces more widespread immune response than intramuscular injectionCredit: Hassan et al. Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine ...

Harvard’s Wyss Institute launches Torus Biosystems

Nucleic acid detection technology enables rapid, quantitative, and highly multiplexed detection of microbial pathogens and host immune-response markers, facilitating precision ...

VUMC awarded $34 million to lead nationwide convalescent plasma study

Study's launch supported by the Dolly Parton COVID-19 Research FundCredit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) has ...

Doctor invents hybrid mask allowing ENT doctors to see more patients

VA seeking companies to license, manufactureCredit: Dr. Scott Fuller/VA SACRAMENTO, Calif. - An ear, nose, and throat doctor has invented ...

First daily surveillance of emerging COVID-19 hotspots

Hotspots have trended towards smaller but more numerous clusters since the pandemic startedCredit: Hohl et al., Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology ...

Vaccine that harnesses antifungal immunity protects mice from staph infection

Credit: NIAID Immunization of mice with a new vaccine consisting of fungal particles loaded with Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) proteins ...

Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 spreads more indoors at low humidity

Indian-German research team recommends at least 40 percent humidity in public buildingsCredit: Tilo Arnhold, TROPOS Leipzig/New Delhi. The airborne transmission ...

Vaccine developed for human herpesvirus 6B (HHV-6B)

Effectiveness of HHV-6B glycoprotein complex-based vaccine demonstratedCredit: Professor Mori Yasuko/Kobe University A research group led by Professor MORI Yasuko (of ...

Study adds to evidence that cells in the nose are key entry point for SARS CoV-2

Credit: Photo by Mengfei Chen Scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine, experimenting with a small number of human cell samples, report ...

COVID-19: How South Korea prevailed while the US failed

Credit: Florida Atlantic University COVID-19 is now the third leading cause of death in the United States. The U.S. accounts ...

Is COVID-19 transmitted through breast milk? Study suggests not likely

August 19, 2020

The infectious virus was not detected in 64 samples of breast milk testedCredit: UC San Diego Health Sciences As the ...

LSU Health New Orleans team creates better tool to aid COVID diagnosis

August 19, 2020

Credit: LSU Health New Orleans New Orleans, LA -- An LSU Health New Orleans radiologist and evolutionary anatomist have teamed ...

CUNY med school, TechnoVax report COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough

August 19, 2020

Credit: City College of New York The CUNY School of Medicine at The City College of New York and TechnoVax, ...

Cryo-EM study yields new clues to chicken pox infection

Credit: Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Despite decades of study, exactly how herpesviruses invade our cells remains something of a ...

LJI team gets first-ever look at a rare but vital stem cell in humans

New understanding of immune cell origins may offer cancer and COVID-19 drug targetsCredit: Daniel Araujo, La Jolla Institute for Immunology ...

Federal and state websites flunk COVID-19 reading-level review

Online pages used long sentences, complex wording when sharing health infoCredit: Richard Clark/Dartmouth College HANOVER, N.H. - August 18, 2020 ...

Humid air can extend lifetime of virus-laden aerosol droplets