The secret of how the Dantu genetic blood variant helps to protect against malaria has been revealed for the first time by scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the University of Cambridge and the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust ...
Sep 16, 2020
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New markers hidden inside the influenza virus have been discovered by scientists at Cardiff University.
Jul 17, 2020
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Hard-won progress against HIV has stalled, putting millions of lives at risk, according to an alarming report Wednesday on how the COVID-19 pandemic and other global crises are jeopardizing efforts to end AIDS.
Jul 27, 2022
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Hospitalized COVID-19 patients are substantially more likely to harbor autoantibodies—antibodies directed at their own tissues or at substances their immune cells secrete into the blood—than people without COVID-19, according ...
Sep 14, 2021
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By the time you test positive for COVID-19, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has already taken up residence in your respiratory system. With each breath, you expel invisible viral particles into the air—a process known as viral shedding. ...
Sep 9, 2022
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Cell cultures and animal studies show that TriSb92, a new molecule developed by the researchers, protects against coronavirus infection for at least eight hours even in cases of high exposure risk. In contrast to vaccine ...
Jan 10, 2022
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New lab-based studies show that two existing drugs, including one developed by a researcher at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, inhibit SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes COVID-19—from infecting human ...
Aug 17, 2020
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In the fight against cancer or chronic infections, the immune system must be active over long periods of time. However, in the long run, the immune defense system often becomes exhausted. Scientists at the German Cancer Research ...
Jun 15, 2020
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Gut microbes produce compounds that prime immune cells to destroy harmful viruses in the brain and nervous system, according to a mouse study published today in eLife.
Jul 16, 2019
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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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