A versatile vaccine that can protect mice from emerging tick-borne viruses
Credit: VanBlargan et al./Cell Reports A group of researchers led by Michael Diamond of Washington University School of Medicine in ...
Tag: Virology
Sofosbuvir rids organism of chikungunya and yellow fever viruses
The medication is already used to treat hepatitis C and has passed all human use approval tests, so it can ...
NJIT researchers shine new light on disease-spreading mosquitoes
Credit: NJIT When the West Nile virus (WNV) was initially isolated in two patients at a Queens, N.Y., hospital in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Memory B cells in the lung may be important for more effective influenza vaccinations
Up to now, it has not been clear if these cells might be useful to combat influenza infections or even ...
Vaccine signatures in humanized mice point to better understanding of infectious diseases
Credit: Alexander Ploss and Florian Douam, Princeton University Infectious diseases kill millions of people each year, but the search for ...
A cancer drug may help treat human papillomavirus infections
Safe and effective therapeutic agents that can treat these cancer-causing viruses are greatly neededCredit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Preclinical experiments ...
Montana State-led project to prevent bat-borne diseases wins $10 million grant
Credit: Shirley Plowright BOZEMAN -- In an effort to prevent some of the world's most lethal diseases, an international research ...
FluChip-8G® insight evaluated for enhanced influenza surveillance in Southeast Asia
InDevR collaborating with Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences to test FluChip-8G Insight™Credit: InDevR, Inc. BOULDER (12/4/18) -- InDevR ...