Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Researchers create powerful new tools to combat Zika

New research from The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, in collaboration with Southwest University in Chongqing, China and the University of Leuven in Belgium, have developed a way to replicate the basic structure ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Scientific methods identify potential antivirals against chikungunya

Chikungunya virus has caused two recent massive outbreaks sickening millions of people. Now a team of researchers has shown that several existing compounds have potent activity against the critical CHIKV protease enzyme. ...

HIV & AIDS

Researchers prove HIV targets tissue macrophages

Investigators in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine have clearly demonstrated that HIV infects and reproduces in macrophages, large white blood cells found in the liver, ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

New research identifies drug target for dengue virus

No vaccine or drug has yet become available against the Dengue virus. A flavivirus like the newly prominent Zika virus, Dengue has become a leading cause of serious illness and death in some Asian and Latin American countries. ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Using 'big data' to combat influenza

An international team of academic and pharmaceutical scientists have tapped into publically available large-scale 'Omics' databases to identify new targets to treat influenza—the virus that causes annual epidemics and occasional ...

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