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…
“Malignant cancer arises when cancer cells acquire the ability to move away from their primary tissue location,” said Natalia Starostina assistant research…
The Asthma Self-Management for Adolescents (ASMA) program is an eight-week intervention geared toward helping adolescents learn more effective ways of managing…
Investigators at Southern Methodist University and The University of Texas at Dallas have discovered a family of small molecules that shows promise in…
Scientists at Umeå Plant Science Center and the international company Syngenta, in a joint study of genetic regulation in the sugar beet, have discovered an…
The Alzheimer’s insights demonstrate how fundamental insights on human metabolism can be gleaned from computer models that incorporate large genomic and…
This system, called “quorum sensing,” is an interesting example of sophistication among microbes, says Helen Blackwell, an associate professor of chemistry at…
Vaccine production hinges on the availability of hundreds of millions of eggs – and even with the vaccine, flu still claims somewhere around 36,000 lives in…
The findings, Millar says, not only provide information about the molecular processes underlying skin development, they also suggest a potential anticancer…
Princeton researchers focused on identifying and studying the gene in zebrafish embryos, and the team's work expanded to include collaborations with other…
WHAT: The costly, time-consuming process of making, distributing and administering millions of seasonal flu vaccines would become obsolete if researchers could…
Research highlights from the 40 abstracts from the John Theurer Cancer Center include a comparison of treatment with stem cell transplantation versus continued…
Seattle—Try to schedule your screening mammogram during the first week of your menstrual cycle. It might make breast cancer screening more accurate for…
“So if 1-2 per cent of the operations lead to bacterial infection, then the need for revision – re-operation – will also increase”, says Anna Stefánsdóttir.This often involves two operations. First, the old prosthesis is removed and temporarily replaced with bone cement, while the patient is treated with antibiotics to eradicate the infection. This takes 6 weeks and during this time the patient can usually remain at home. Then a further operation follows to insert a new prosthesis….
Rasagaline works by prolonging the effect of dopamine, a chemical that transmits signals between nerve cells in the brain. The cause of RLS is unknown, but…
Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine have adapted gene chip microarray technology to the study of glycans, with an approach they call “shotgun…
That is the conclusion of a new study published online on Dec. 5 by the journal Nature Neuroscience. The experiment provides the first evidence for seasonal…
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