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…
For several years, researchers from ULB have been studying Rhesus factors. These factors belong to a family comprising five proteins, three of which are…
“Human metapneumovirus may be the second most common cause of lower respiratory infection in young children. Studies have shown that by the age of five,…
Rolf Reber, together with mathematician Morten Brun and psychologist Karoline Mitterndorfer, all from the University of Bergen, Norway, have reported first…
The new drug that the Örebro researchers have developed is based on the use of photo-dynamic therapy in cancer treatment. In short, this is a drug that after…
The Dräger DrugTest 5000 is capable of detecting even minute traces of addictive drugs in saliva within minutes. This means it can provide a quick check on…
This patient supply system aims to improve clinical processes and workflows by offering especially powerful individual components for patient monitoring,…
If a patient is delivered to the clinic with pulmonary complications, the clinic has to decide which type of therapy is suitable. In addition to purely medical…
Both processes are simplified by the Pick and Go technology which is part of Dräger’s Infinity Delta monitor series. Everyone benefits – the patients, the…
Collecting, storing and documenting patient data electronically is a growing trend in today’s leading hospitals. Technologies that are essential to business…
Siemens Healthcare and the Asklepios Hospitals will continue to deepen their cooperation in the information technology (IT) sector. The hospital information…
Now, University of Michigan researchers have demonstrated a simple, inexpensive method for detecting contaminants in heparin, a development that could prevent…
The finding casts doubt on the idea that the world-wide success of ants stems from job specialization within the colony. Ants are found on every continent…
Creating new drugs to combat disease and illness requires the completion of a complex 3D jigsaw. The shape of the drug must be right to allow it to bind to a…
Recent scientific fieldwork led by researchers from the Natural History Museum and UCL on Skye, an island off the north-western coast of Scotland, discovered a…
With renewed efforts to eradicate malaria – a disease which kills up to one million people every year, most of them young children – the global demand for…
This is the first report linking aluminium overload with either of the two conditions and the possibility is considered that the coincident aluminium overload…
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