Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Parasite sheds light on sleeping sickness
Fresh insight into the survival strategy of the sleeping sickness parasite could help inform treatments for the disease.
Apr 21, 2011
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Study provides preliminary evidence in favor of a new type 1 diabetes treatment
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease that causes the body's immune system to attack and destroy insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas. Traditional management of type 1 diabetes has primarily involved replacing ...
Nov 2, 2023
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Stopping a tiny—and deadly—fly in its tracks
Sixty million people in sub-Saharan Africa live at risk of African sleeping sickness, a disease caused by parasites transmitted through the tsetse fly. In the late stage of the disease, when the parasite crosses the blood-brain ...
Jul 5, 2018
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Scientists discover sleeping sickness can also be transmitted and spread via the skin
Scientists have made an important new discovery in the study of Human African Trypanosomiasis, more commonly known as African sleeping sickness. The findings could have a major impact on the way the disease is diagnosed, ...
Sep 23, 2016
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Immunology
Study suggests new way to help the immune system fight off sleeping sickness parasite
Some infectious diseases are particularly difficult to treat because of their ability to evade the immune system. One such illness, African sleeping sickness, is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma brucei, transmitted by the ...
Dec 8, 2015
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Exploring the adaptation extremes of human high altitude sickness and fitness
Many research groups have recently explored human adaptation and successfully identified candidate genes to high altitude living among three major far-flung global populations: Tibetans, Ethiopians and Peruvians.
Sep 21, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Student inventors create detection system for African sleeping sickness
Six University of Aberdeen students will head to Boston on Wednesday to a major international science competition to showcase a new diagnostic tool they have created.
Oct 27, 2014
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Immunology
Sleeping sickness by stealth
(Medical Xpress)—Stealth is a well-known concept in military tactics. Almost since the invention of radar, the hunt began for counter-technologies to hide aircraft and missiles from detection – most successfully by modifying ...
Feb 5, 2013
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Major advance in sleeping sickness drug made by Glasgow scientists
A new study published in the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases on September 6th presents a key advance in developing a safer cure for sleeping sickness. Led by Professor Peter Kennedy, researchers at the ...
Sep 6, 2011
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Targeted nanoparticles can overcome drug resistance in trypanosomes
Sleeping sickness, or African trypanosomiasis, is caused by trypanosome parasites transmitted by tsetse flies and threatens millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa. The disease is considered fatal if untreated, but as it ...
Jun 25, 2015
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