Medications
Keto diet boosts lifesaving antifungal drug in mice
For the roughly 150,000 AIDS patients who come down with a life-threatening infection called fungal meningitis each year, there aren't many options.
May 9, 2024
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mBio
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
These less common proteins may help fend off the flu
Influenza type B, though generally less widespread than type A, poses a formidable threat for vulnerable populations like the elderly and the young. In the 2012-2013 flu season, for example, influenza type B caused the majority ...
Mar 12, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Scientists develop infection model for tickborne flaviviruses
National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists have filled a research gap by developing a laboratory model to study ticks that transmit flaviviruses, such as Powassan virus. Powassan virus was implicated in the death of a ...
Aug 22, 2017
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Immunology
'Magic cocktail' generates lung's most critical immune cell in the lab
Researchers at Texas Biomedical Research Institute have succeeded in generating the lung's most important immune cell, the alveolar macrophage, in the lab. The cell culture model will make it much easier and inexpensive for ...
Jun 12, 2023
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Medical research
New type of antibiotic resistance living in hiding
Aggressive infections constitute an increasing health problem all over the world. The development of bacterial resistance development is immense, and in the USA, resistant staphylococci cause more deaths than AIDS on an annual ...
Jan 21, 2015
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
More than Lyme: Tick study finds multiple agents of tick-borne diseases
In a study published in mBio, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology, Jorge Benach and Rafal Tokarz, and their co-authors at Stony Brook University and Columbia University, reported on the prevalence of multiple ...
Sep 16, 2019
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Health
Bacteria overgrowth could be major cause of stunting in children
Excessive growth of bacteria in the small intestine could be damaging the guts of young children, leading to stunting, scientists from the U.S. and Bangladesh have discovered.
Feb 19, 2016
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Medical research
New vaccine against fatal tropical disease and potential bioterror weapon demonstrates efficacy in animal studies
In a mouse study, UCLA researchers tested a vaccine against the bacterium that causes melioidosis and found it was highly protective against the disease, which is endemic in many tropical areas, causing approximately 165,000 ...
Mar 21, 2024
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Medical research
Mosquito 'spit glands' hold key to curbing malaria, study shows
Mosquitoes can harbor thousands of malaria-causing parasites in their bodies, yet while slurping blood from a victim, they transmit just a tiny fraction of them. In an effort to define precisely the location of the parasite ...
Aug 12, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
T cell response not critical for immune memory to SARS-CoV-2 or recovery from COVID-19
New research conducted in monkeys reveals that T cells are not critical for the recovery of primates from acute COVID-19 infections. T cell depletion does not induce severe disease, and T cells do not account for the natural ...
Jul 27, 2021
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