Biomedical technology
New approach to airborne disinfection uses food-coloring dyes
The COVID-19 pandemic has shed new light on the needs for improved disinfection methods, both for individuals and facilities.
Aug 6, 2020
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Immunology
The wrong track: How papillomaviruses trick the immune system
Specific antibodies protect us against viral infections—or do they? Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) studied the immune response to papillomaviruses in mice and discovered a hitherto unknown mechanism ...
Aug 4, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Preventing the next pandemic
Thus far, COVID-19 has cost at least $2.6 trillion and may cost ten times this amount. It is the largest global pandemic in 100 years. Six months after emerging, it has killed over 600,000 people and is having a major impact ...
Jul 23, 2020
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Gastroenterology
Fighting E. coli with E. coli
According to findings published this week in mBio, Nissle, a strain of Escherichia coli, is harmless to intestinal tissue and may protect the gut from enterohemorrhagic E. coli, a pathogen that produces Shiga toxin.
Jul 7, 2020
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Medications
Ceftolozane/tazobactam: New treatment option for severe infections, but no proof of superiority
The combination of ceftolozane with tazobactam broadens the range of antibiotic therapy in adults with severe infections of the lungs, the urinary tract, the renal pelvis and the abdominal cavity. In view of the increasing ...
Jul 2, 2020
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Immunology
Smart structures: Structural cells of the body control immune function
In a Nature paper, CeMM researchers report on the epigenetic and transcriptional regulation in structural cells. They found widespread activity of immune genes, suggesting that structural cells are deeply involved in the ...
Jul 1, 2020
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Medical research
How natural history collections can predict the next pandemic
The 21st century has already seen multiple major new disease outbreaks, from SARS and MERS to Ebola and Zika, culminating in the current COVID-19 pandemic. The global human suffering, economic damage, and social disruption ...
Jun 25, 2020
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Parkinson's & Movement disorders
The Parkinson's disease gut has an overabundance of opportunistic pathogens
Parkinson's disease is a common, progressive and debilitating neurodegenerative disease. It currently cannot be prevented or cured.
Jun 19, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Together they stay alive longer: Tuberculosis bacteria persist longer in groups
The tuberculosis pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis can protect itself better when combined and thus stay alive longer in the air. This was the result of a study by the Leibniz Research Alliance INFECTIONS, which was published ...
Jun 12, 2020
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Neuroscience
Happiness might protect you from gastrointestinal distress
Serotonin, a chemical known for its role in producing feelings of well-being and happiness in the brain, can reduce the ability of some intestinal pathogens to cause deadly infections, new research by UT Southwestern scientists ...
Jun 9, 2020
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