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…
“By confining individual proteins in nanodroplets of water, researchers can directly observe the dynamics and structural changes of these biomolecules,” says…
Bacillus anthracis, the bacterium that causes anthrax, has been a centuries-old threat to human health. In 2001, it was used as a letter-borne terrorist weapon…
Higher blood levels of an immune system protein predict poor survival prospects for melanoma patients with advanced disease, researchers at The University of…
Radio and cable are not required for communication within and between living cells. Rather, signal transduction in cells is performed by a multitude of…
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have shown that increasing the brain level of receptors for dopamine, a…
Western Australian Institute for Medical Research (WAIMR) Associate Professor Ruth Ganss and her team have found that a gene called RGS5 can reverse…
Professor David Craik and Dr Richard Clark from the Institute for Molecular Bioscience have received $218,275 from the National Health and Medical Research…
Researchers have come closer to understanding how these bacteria manage to thwart two major categories of immune defenses at once and set up shop in a host…
The four investigators compared key benchmarks in the development of 28 different primate species, ranging from humans living free of modern trappings in South…
With C. elegans , a common microscopic worm that lives in dirt, Iqbal Hamza, assistant professor of animal and avian sciences, and his team identified…
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley (USA) have now developed a new strategy for the formation of hybrid materials from synthetic polymers and…
The study, available online today, analyzes the short-term effects of outdoor pollution levels on asthma symptoms and lung function in children. The study was…
These findings suggest that by focusing surveillance efforts on East and Southeast Asia, researchers may be able to extend their forecast of the flu strains…
Neurologists have identified the illness as a new disorder which causes symptoms ranging from a transverse myelitis syndrome, inflammation of the spinal cord,…
“We now know where the influenza A virus comes from every year,” said Edward Holmes, professor of biology at Penn State. “And because we now know how the virus…
Their findings appear in Nature Methods.Scientists have known for more than a century that proteins, such as histones, aid in packing DNA into the nucleus of a…
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