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…
Dr Astrid Oude Lashof, Nijmegen University Centre for Infectious Diseases, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Netherlands, and colleagues treated the…
The global obesity epidemic was issued with a further health warning today – that obesity exacerbates the quality of life of patients with rheumatoid arthritis…
Whilst some disease activity measurements were found to be higher for women than men, and self-reported disease activity by the patients themselves echoed…
The mode, on top of traditional complex therapy, includes stem cells intravenous injection to the patient, the stem cells being educed from his/her own marrow…
The link between calorie restriction and a longer, healthier life may lie in the head, not in the gut, MIT biologists report.Dietary restriction extends…
A team of 12 researchers from University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland and the Institute of Food Research, Norwich, UK set out to uncover what S. aureus…
Bjarke Christensen and Tine Licht together with colleagues from Denmark’s National Food Institute set out to investigate whether the growth conditions of…
The lead report from the ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Consortium, published in Nature, together with 28 companion papers published in Genome Research,…
The problem is largely exasperated by intense agriculture and irrigation. Salinity drives the plant into water deficit and is accompanied by toxicity of sodium…
This protein – alphaB-crystallin – is not normally found in the brain, but develops in response to the injuries inflicted on nerve cells by multiple sclerosis….
We know that in terrestrial ecosystems, plants are the only living beings capable of producing their own food. This is only possible thanks to the chlorophyll…
Mark S. Roberts and colleagues from the University of Pittsburgh used data from a large, multi-centre study to develop their dynamic microsimulation model….
Professor Fitzhugh Mullan and Dr Seble Frehywot, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Washington, DC, USA, and colleagues…
Arterial hypertension is a causal and modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular and renal diseases and an important and frequently encountered condition in…
Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) can cause pain on walking and ischaemia resulting in pain when resting, ulceration and gangrene.One in five people over the…
Huntington's disease is caused by a mutation of a gene that the produces the Huntington protein. This protein influences a number of processes in the cells of…
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