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…
Now researchers at the University of Leeds have developed a simpler, cheaper and greener method of extracting higher yields of one of this most useful and…
Single-celled parasites of the genus Spironucleus are known to produce serious illness in farmed and aquarium fish. In farmed salmon, these parasites create…
Their research is in a study published today (Feb.8, 2008) in the journal Science. “This finding was unexpected — especially since it entails a broad…
The researchers, from Arizona State University and Washington University, St. Louis, report in the current online edition (Feb. 4) of the Proceedings of the…
The Multidisciplinary Cardiovascular Research Centre (MCRC) will help researchers from the Faculties of Medicine and Health and Biological Sciences to pool…
Delegates at the British Society for Computer Aided Orthopaedic Surgery Conference will hear that results from a pilot study saw graduates 95 per cent more…
A report on the device is published in the Feb. 8 issue of the journal Science. Authors include researchers from Simon Fraser University in Canada and the…
Whatever the position of the patient, even sitting upright, operations can be performed without arm, back or neck strain. The microscope allows hours of…
Acrylic bone cements based on polymethylmetacrylate (PMMA) have been traditionally used in hip replacements in order to set the prothesis inside the bone. On…
In the first application of high throughput DNA sequencing technology to investigate an infectious disease outbreak, scientists from Columbia University…
In trying to tease out the answer to this simple question, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers have uncovered a protein that stops the growth of…
The University of Manchester team will use the model organism to investigate Lowe syndrome, an inherited complaint affecting only boys.“Lowe syndrome is a rare…
Cornelis Boersma, pharmacist and PhD student at the University of Groningen, has analysed the medical data of over 8,500 Groningers and discovered that…
Although vaccines exist to protect against some strains of meningitis, there is still no vaccine to protect against all strains, including the most common in…
Some of these toxins, such as the mycoestrogen zearalenone (ZEA) produced by the Fusarium fungus species, can be found naturally in the environment, have…
Type 2-diabetes is a chronic disease resulting from a reduction in insulin-production from the pancreas or an inability of other tissues in the body to respond…
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