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…
In a high-stakes tit for tat, protein kinase G enables healthy cells to stay on task to proliferate, differentiate then provide a useful function. Cancer…
The research reinforces previous results by German researchers, who found the same gene variant associated with the adult form of Crohn’s disease.Researchers…
“Plant breeders often find that five or six years after their release, resistant plant varieties become susceptible because pathogens can evolve very quickly…
While scientists have known for years that a common plant hormone, jasmonate, plays a crucial role in plant development and function, the steps that convert…
While biologists have long known that the structure of adult animals follows a blueprint laid out in the early stages of embryonic development, classical…
ALL in infants aged younger than 12 months is both rare and biologically different from ALL in older children. Although the cure rate in children with ALL has…
Daniel Raftery, a Purdue professor of analytical and physical chemistry, and his collaborators used a simple chemical reaction to improve the ability to detect…
Competing theories on the origins of anatomically modern humans claim that either humans originated from a single point in Africa and migrated across the…
Usually, the synthesis of short protein chains (polypeptides) begins with the production of their components, the amino acids. But it can be done differently:…
Stéphane Hugonnet and colleagues from the University of Geneva Hospitals, Switzerland, investigated the number of patients admitted to the ICU who developed…
Statins are cholesterol-lowering drugs used by those with heart disease. The new findings suggest that simvastatin is associated with a lower incidence of…
However an accompanying Comment cautions the findings are only applicable to patients having periods of maximum virological suppression, and thus have limited…
Increasing evidence of the value of these anticoagulant drugs in a wide range of clinical disorders such as abnormal heart rhythm, or atrial fibrillation, has…
Humans attain vitamin D from exposure to sunlight, diet and supplements. Vitamin D deficiency is common in children and adults. In utero and childhood, vitamin…
This vaccine is intended to provide protection against all ‘A’ strains of the virus that causes human influenza, including pandemic strains. FluInfluenza is an…
FINDINGS: Researchers isolated bisdemethoxycurcumin, the active ingredient of curcuminoids – a natural substance found in turmeric root – that may help boost…
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