Gene activity database could spare thousands of mice
Researchers have developed a comprehensive database of gene activity in mice across ten disease models, which could significantly reduce animal ...
Tag: Virology
‘Can you hear me, now?’ A new strategy ‘raises the volume’ of gut-body communication
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Throughout the gastrointestinal tract there are specialized hormone-producing cells called enteroendocrine cells and, although they ...
NIH funds creation of new lab model for TB/HIV research
First-of-its-kind model could prove cheaper and more effective San Antonio, Texas (June 26, 2019) - When people suffer from both ...
No cell is an island
LJI team finds that 'doublet' immune cells are much more common--and more important in disease--than previously thoughtCredit: Dr. Yunmin Jung, ...
ATCC introduces standards for enhancing microbiology research at ASM Microbe 2019
Company develops fully authenticated and characterized materials to support reproducible research Manassas, VA - June 24, 2019 - ATCC, a ...
Pathogen engineered to self-destruct underlies cancer vaccine platform
Washington, DC - June 24, 2019 - A team of investigators has developed a cancer vaccine technology using live, attenuated ...
Combatting the world's deadliest infections using groundbreaking human-mimetic tools
New approaches offer insights into mechanisms and treatments of viral diseases not revealed through animal testingCredit: Produced by Craig Redmond ...
Big data and innovations for healthy bees
Recently started, Horizon 2020 project B-GOOD seeks to create a EU-wide management and health data platform to assist sustainable beekeepingCredit: ...
The solution to antibiotic resistance could be in your kitchen sponge
San Francisco, CA - June 23, 2019 - Researchers from the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) have discovered bacteriophages, ...
$2 million NIH grant renewal to study hepatitis E virus
Annually infecting more than 20 million people worldwide -- particularly in developing countries -- according to the World Health Organization, ...
Good viruses and bad bacteria: A world-first green sea turtle trial
Credit: Bethany Keats, JCU Media Researchers at the JCU Turtle Health Research Facility have conducted a first-of-its-kind study using what's ...
How hepatitis B and delta viruses establish infection of liver cells
Princeton University researchers explore infection using new cell culture systemCredit: Winer, et al., Princeton University Princeton University researchers have developed ...
Researchers find genetic cause for fatal response to Hepatitis A
Credit: Belkaya et al., 2019 Researchers have identified a genetic mutation that caused an 11-year-old girl to suffer a fatal ...
Virus genes help determine if pea aphids get their wings
Credit: University of Rochester photo / Omid Saleh Ziabari Many of an organism's traits are influenced by cues from the ...
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