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…
The degree of twisting of natural helical structures, such as the DNA double-helix, plays an essential role in many important biological functions. Because of…
By Keiko Sugimoto, Unit Leader, Cell Function Research Unit, RIKEN Plant Science CenterPlants have been cultivated and studied from the earliest days of human…
HIV adapts in a surprising way to survive and thrive in its hiding spot within the human immune system, scientists have learned. While the finding helps…
Although many steps of the pathway were already known, new research from a team including Carnegie's Ying Sun and Zhiyong Wang fills in a missing gap about the…
Strokes are a leading cause of mortality and adult disability. Those that involve intracerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) are especially deadly, and…
Professor David Garrod, in the Faculty of Life Sciences, has found that the glue molecules bind only to similar glue molecules on other cells, making a very…
Obtaining consent for genetic studies can be an opportunity for researchers to foster respectful engagement with participants, not merely to mitigate legal…
To understand the emerging science of epigenetics—a field that describes how genes may be regulated without altering the underlying DNA itself—scientists are…
With little more than a conventional photocopier and transparency film, anyone can build a functional microfluidic chip.A local Cambridge high school physics…
Cancer scientists have designed the first molecular test to predict which bladder cancer patients may have cancer involvement in their lymph nodes at the time…
Understanding the symptoms, particularly symptom distress – or the degree to which a symptom bothers a person, is crucial to improved patient care….
“The majority of diabetics will over time develop severe or fatal complications, but 10–15 per cent never do. They are the ones we are interested in in the…
The new approach used established brain imaging techniques in a new way. Instead of measuring how brain activity differs before and after subjects learn a…
Their work is the latest development in the push to develop self-assembling nanoscale materials that mimic the intricacy and functionality of nature's…
Some amoebae do what many people do. Before they travel, they pack a lunch.In results of a study reported today in the journal Nature, evolutionary biologists…
The results are to be published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and are now online.Previous studies have shown that small molecules can interfere with…
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