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…
Only about 10 percent of human genes, for example, are actively producing proteins in a given cell at a given time. The remaining 90 percent are silenced by a…
In order to avoid possible fraud in labelling, a number of different technologies have been developed in recent years to comply with the regulations of the…
Equipped and resourced to the highest specification, the world-class facility establishes for the first time a Core Technology Unit to support the use and…
The results have been published in the latest issue of the British scientific journal specialising in Neurology, Brain, and have corroborated the conclusions…
Professor Jorma Paavonen, Department of Obstetric and Gynecology, University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, and colleagues carried out their analysis of…
Luteinising hormone is produced in the pituitary gland and stimulates ovulation and the production of oestrogen. LHRH agonists are molecules which mimic the…
Professor Olof Nyrén and Gustaf Edgren, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden together with Professor Mads Melbye and Dr Henrik Hjalgrim from Statens Serum…
A new study, published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology, finds that adding a bovine protein called lactoferrin to the existing treatment may yield…
Staff at the Royal Darwin Hospital – who treated many of the casualties – also received vital personal support from mental health nurses, especially as they…
Free will and true spontaneity exist … in fruit flies. This is what scientists report in a groundbreaking study in the May 16, 2007 issue of the open-access…
Those patients whose tumors had normal p53 displayed only a 30 percent survival rate. The findings raise the possibility of a new strategy for fighting cancer…
The World Health Organization predicts that by 2030 COPD will be the world's fourth commonest cause of death, after heart disease, stroke, and AIDS, and the…
The researchers have also succeeded “to make” the tumor cells to become virtually normal mesenchymal cells again. These results, published in Cancer Cell on 7…
Fully 60% of the patients agreed to the testing, a high percentage that may have been influenced by an ongoing district-wide campaign encouraging HIV…
Linda Kruus, PhD, of Temple University Medical School’s Department of Emergency Medicine, in collaboration with the Temple University Center for Preparedness…
During the three-month study, published in the May issue of Journal of Clinical Nursing, 13 of the 18 patients in the intervention group put on weight,…
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