New study reveals how human astroviruses bind to humans cells and paves the way for new therapies and vaccines Human astroviruses are a leading viral cause of the stomach bug—think vomiting, diarrhea, and fever. It often impacts young children and older adults, leading to vicious cycles of sickness and malnutrition, particularly for those in low and middle income countries. It’s very commonly found in wastewater studies, meaning it’s frequently circulating in communities. As of now, there are no vaccines for…
“H. pylori is considered one of the major risk factors underlying the development of gastritis and gastric and duodenal ulcers,” write the researchers….
A team involving University of Tennessee, Knoxville, researchers has conducted the first-ever genetic sequencing of a harmful algal bloom (HAB) species,…
A lab at Rice University has stepped forward with an efficient method to disperse nanotubes in a way that preserves their unique properties — and adds more. The new technique allows inorganic metal complexes with different functionalities to remain in close contact with single-walled carbon nanotubes while keeping them separated in a solution. …
In a major advance for schizophrenia research, an international team of scientists led by the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and…
The early positive signs for so-called prion diseases come from research in laboratory mice and cell cultures, they say in a report in ACS' Journal of…
A U.S.-Chile collaboration is bringing surgical patients closer to having a long-acting local anesthetic. In a randomized, double-blind trial, patients given…
In a finding that may potentially improve survival from war injuries and disasters, laboratory researchers report that refrigerated whole blood may have a…
The discoveries are published in the Feb. 24 issue of the journal Nature.The paper describes the co-crystal structure of two parts of the three-part efflux…
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a low-dose, two-drug cocktail that reduces hearing loss in mice when given…
Connie Weaver and colleagues cite studies suggesting that up to 7 in 10 people in the United States may not get enough vitamin D, which enables the body to…
The “Current Concepts” article by Yale School of Medicine clinicians Christopher L. Moore, M.D., and Joshua A. Copel, M.D., outlines how ultrasound use has…
It may seem paradoxical, but being part of a crowd is what makes you unique, according to UCLA life scientists.Biologists Kimberly Pollard and Daniel Blumstein…
To the naked eye, both water molecules and germs are invisible — objects so tiny they are measured by the nanometer, a unit of length about 100,000 times…
But previous attempts to design these nanoparticles by changing their shape have failed because the structures are unstable and will revert back to their…
While these levels are higher than traditional intakes, they are largely in a range deemed safe for daily use in a December 2010 report from the National…
This bundle of nerve fibers, which is approximately 0.3 mm thick, is not exclusively responsible for optic information. In the blind, it might play a greater…
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