While conventional flu vaccines are designed to anticipate the influenza strains projected to dominate in the next flu season, they're only partially effective. And while antiviral drugs are available to treat active flu ...
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Two oral drugs, molnupiravir and paxlovid (nirmatrelvir/ritonavir), provide equivalent therapeutic benefit in preventing severe COVID-19 in animal models, but only molnupiravir efficiently blocked SARS-CoV-2 transmission ...
Aug 9, 2023
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Just as bacteria can develop antibiotic resistance, viruses can also evade drug treatments. Developing therapies against these microbes is difficult because viruses often mutate or hide themselves within cells. But by mimicking ...
Aug 2, 2023
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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has raised global concern on public health. There are major challenges ahead to develop new therapeutics and vaccines for difficult-to-target pathogens, for which we urgently need a better understanding ...
Jul 25, 2023
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Salk Institute researchers, in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health, have discovered the molecular mechanisms by which the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) becomes resistant to Dolutegravir, one of the most ...
Jul 21, 2023
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In a study published in Nature Cell Biology, Australian researchers, led by Professor Jose Polo from Monash University and the University of Adelaide and University of Melbourne's Professor Kanta Subbarao from the Peter Doherty ...
Jul 13, 2023
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When it comes to COVID, people living in disadvantaged communities are hit with a triple whammy. First, they're more likely to get infected, and when sick, are more likely to have serious disease. Second, they're more likely ...
Jun 22, 2023
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A research team led by Junior Associate Professor Kazuo Takayama (CiRA, Kyoto University) and Professor Kei Sato (Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo) experimentally infected human keratinocytes and human ...
Jun 20, 2023
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Of the 38 million people worldwide living with HIV, approximately 700,000 are newly infected men, primarily via sexual transmission. Sexually transmitted HIV infections in exclusively heterosexual men are acquired through ...
Jun 12, 2023
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If you came down with a respiratory infection in the spring and it wasn't influenza (flu), COVID-19 or RSV, it may have been a virus you've never heard of.
Jun 1, 2023
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