Surgery
Smart wound dressing provides suture-free closure of surgical incisions
"Sutures? That's practically medieval!"
Nov 29, 2021
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News tagged with human infections
Medical research
Zika virus-specific therapy protects the fetal mouse brain
A gene-silencing therapy protected against Zika virus transmission from pregnant mice to the mouse fetuses, finds a study published November 10th in the journal Molecular Therapy. The treatment, which harnesses nanoparticles ...
Nov 10, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Unexpected antibody type found in people with malaria infections
Malaria, a pathogen transmitted into blood by mosquitoes in tropical climates, is typically thought of as a blood and liver infection. However, in a newly published study, researchers at the University of Maryland School ...
Nov 2, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Antibody treatment prevents inflammation in lungs, nervous system in macaques with SARS-CoV-2
Monoclonal antibodies protected aged, diabetic rhesus macaque monkeys from disease due to SARS-CoV-2 and reduced signs of inflammation, including in cerebrospinal fluid, according to a new study from researchers at the University ...
Nov 1, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Evidence suggests SARS-CoV-2 virus attacks brain endothelial cells
A team of researchers affiliated with a large number of institutions in Germany, one in France and one in Spain has found evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 virus attacks brain endothelial cells. In their paper published in the ...
Medications
A drug cocktail stops SARS-CoV-2 infection of stem cells
The COVID-19 vaccine is just one example of the rapid and global effort to stopping the pandemic. Drugs too are being developed. A new study by CiRA researchers shows that the combination of two drugs halts the infection ...
Oct 21, 2021
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Medications
Antiviral compound blocks SARS-CoV-2 from entering cells
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a chemical compound that interferes with a key feature of many viruses that allows the viruses to invade human cells. The compound, called ...
Oct 12, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Lessons from how bats resist covid could inform new treatments in humans
A paper published in the prestigious journal, Science Immunology, explores the idea that studying bats' responses to SARS-CoV-2 may provide key insights into how and when to best use existing therapies for COVID-19, and to ...
Sep 17, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Videos capture lethal progress of COVID-19 virus
Video images capture for the first time in live animals the inexorable spread of the COVID-19 virus, tracking the infection as it moved from the noses of mice to the lungs and other organs over the course of six days, in ...
Aug 18, 2021
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Medications
Lab-grown beating heart cells used to identify potential drug to prevent COVID-19-related heart damage
Cambridge scientists have grown beating heart cells in the lab and shown how they are vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 infection. In a study published in Communications Biology, they used this system to show that an experimental ...
Aug 5, 2021
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