Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Got a child with COVID at home? Here's how to look after them
The Delta variant is more infectious and is leading to more COVID-19 cases in children than previous strains.
Aug 31, 2021
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News tagged with viral infections
Medical research
What are researchers doing to stop dementia?
They are words nobody wants to hear: Alzheimer's disease and dementia. As the population ages, a growing number of older adults gradually lose cherished memories and the ability to think and, ultimately, to perform even the ...
Aug 30, 2021
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Genetics
New genetic markers for a rarer form of type 1 diabetes
While most cases of type 1 diabetes are classified as autoimmune diseases, a minor proportion of these patients have non-immune-mediated type 1 diabetes, sometimes referred to as type 1 B diabetes. Researchers from Children's ...
Aug 27, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
A turncoat protein allows viruses to ride roughshod in the liver, paving the way to cancer
Chronic viral infections in the liver can lead to organ dysfunction and ultimately to liver tumors in a progression invariably characterized by viruses that proliferate free of immune system restraints.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Why do short-lived lung infections lead to long-lasting lung damage?
The deadliest time in a viral respiratory illness sometimes is actually after the virus is cleared from the body. Destructive processes that are set in motion during an infection crest in the weeks after the virus is defeated, ...
Aug 24, 2021
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Medical research
Intricacies of tissue memory T cells could be the future of immunotherapies and vaccines
In a significant step forward in understanding the crucial role tissue-resident memory T (TRM) cells play in the immune system, researchers have for the first time described how the cells behave in different tissues around ...
Aug 24, 2021
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Genetics
Rare gene variants found to increase vulnerability to H7N9 avian influenza infection
An international team of researchers has found evidence that suggests people with MX1 gene variants are more susceptible to H7N9 avian influenza infections. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes ...
Medications
Study finds existing drugs that can kill SARS-CoV2 in cells
Since the beginning of the pandemic, researchers worldwide have been looking for ways to treat COVID-19. And while the COVID-19 vaccines represent the best measure to prevent the disease, therapies for those who do get infected ...
Aug 19, 2021
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Genetics
Study finds genetic risk of COVID-19
An analysis of the DNA of thousands of people who have been infected with the coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, and shown a positive test for the disease it causes, COVID-19, shows that they have several DNA characteristics in common. ...
Aug 16, 2021
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Medical research
Researchers find vital enzyme holds key to the fight against cancer and viral infections
A new study led by University of California, Irvine (UCI) researchers identifies two ways in which APOBEC3A— a vital enzyme that is responsible for genetic changes resulting in a variety of cancers while protecting our ...
Aug 13, 2021
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