Sandia National Laboratories

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Researchers discover mechanism for Rift Valley fever virus infection

Viruses can't live without us—literally. As obligate parasites, viruses need a host cell to survive and grow. Scientists are exploiting this characteristic by developing therapeutics that close off pathways necessary for ...

Oncology & Cancer

Starving cancer instead of feeding it poison

A patent application for a drug that could destroy the deadly childhood disease known as acute lymphoblastic leukemia—and potentially other cancers as well—has been submitted by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories, ...

Medical research

Researchers find clues to superbug evolution

Imagine going to the hospital with one disease and coming home with something much worse, or not coming home at all. With the emergence and spread of antibiotic-resistance pathogens, healthcare-associated infections have ...

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