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…
Researchers conducted an Eating Disorder Mental Health Literacy (EDMHL) intervention by providing women with eating disorders with treatment information,…
Karen Lord, who holds the first Nursing Fellowship at the University funded by Hope Against Cancer (formerly The Hope Foundation), is researching the…
A new catalyst-free, self-healing material system developed by researchers at the University of Illinois offers a far less expensive and far more practical way…
An outbreak of lymphogranuloma venereum has been detected following reports of the disease in Europe. “From October 2004 to the end of April 2007, 492 cases of…
The experimental device works by using sunlight to convert the glucose into hydrogen to power the cell, which produces several hundred millivolts.The use of…
Attempts to cure brain-related disorders have proved less successful than therapies for other major conditions such as heart cancer, even though just as many…
This is the first study that shows the 3D structure of a molecular complex found in the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis that repairs DNA damage. According…
Biologists at Liverpool will investigate the role of the NF-kappaB signalling system to determine how cells decide when to die. NFkB governs responses within…
Or, did the ancestors of today’s Native Americans come from other parts of Asia or Polynesia, arriving multiple times at several places on the two continents,…
Doctors collected 732 samples from 22 Irish hospitals over the last ten years and found that 61% of them, 448 samples, tested positive for bacteria that can…
A molecular method designed by the Health Protection Agency has been successfully implemented by medical researchers at the Royal Free Hospital, part of the…
This was the key message of Cees ‘t Hart, chairman of the Choices International Foundation, to an audience of some 100 European opinion formers at a lunch…
Researchers from Egypt, where live donations are currently the only legal option, carried out detailed evaluations of 339 patients who attended follow-up…
In a research paper published in PLoS ONE it is reported that it is not just any light that is most effective but rather light of a particular short wavelength…
The fundamental challenges.Infections have always been among the principal causes of death in the human species. In the developed world, microbes may be…
Liesbeth Winter of the Leiden University Medical Center, however, was able to prove the concept of using the embryonic potential of adult human cells to train…
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