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…
Stem rust of wheat was responsible for massive epidemics on wheat during the early 20th Century in North America. In the mid-1950s, wheat breeders developed…
> Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have found an absolute biochemical distinction between the sporadic and hereditary variants…
Their work appears online May 6 in advance of publication in the journal Nature Methods.Fruit flies are well suited for chromosome studies because some of…
The likelihood of developing bipolar disorder depends in part on the combined, small effects of variations in many different genes in the brain, none of which…
The USF study, published in the March 2007 issue of the journal Developmental Biology and highlighted April 26, 2007 in Nature, counters the controversial…
The component, IL-17, was recognized only in the past 18 months to be a primary cause of bone destruction and inflammation in autoimmune diseases. Therapies…
A doctoral thesis carried out at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Granada (Universidad de Granada [http://www.ugr.es]) by…
The heart-assist devices also significantly improved the cardiac function in many other heart failure patients. “This suggests that, while the devices alone…
A review of young leukemia patients over the past decade has shown that the absolute lymphocyte count (ALC), a measure of normal immune cells found on every…
In a commentary in the May 9, 2007 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, scientists at the National Institutes of Health discuss why…
According to research published in the April AANA Journal of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists, the intravenous administration of life-saving…
Huntington's disease is one of a number of degenerative diseases marked by clumps of malformed protein in brain cells. Symptoms include abnormal movements,…
The brain contains about 100 million nerve cells, each having 10,000 connections to other nerves cells. These connections, called synapses, chemically transmit…
Research projects to be funded will further clarify the roles of amyloid precursor protein (APP) metabolites, which regulate stem cells in the brain, as well…
Anthrax killed five people in 2001 when letters containing the bacteria's spores were sent through the mail. The UF findings, published last week in the EMBO…
Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer death and an area where novel therapies to block metastasis are desperately needed, according to first author…
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