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…
Malaria is not caused by a mosquito but by a parasite in the mosquito. The malaria parasite needs the mosquito to reproduce and spread. The gametocyte is the…
The slogan is backed by sobering statistics. More than 365 000 cases of TB were reported in the Europe in 2005, 10,000 more than for 2004. The figures for…
– Brown must tackle shocking inequalities at birth, says Fabian report- British Asian mothers have high risk of having low-birth weight babies- 24,000 children…
In a 5-year, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical study, researchers found that giving nitroglycerin to mothers who had entered premature labor led to…
The concept has been demonstrated in worms and researchers hope that the same concept can help extend human life and reduce the risk of cancer and other…
“If we find the patients in time, their risk of developing chronic pain as adults declines,” says dentist Ing-Marie Nilsson, who recently defended her doctoral…
They have succeeded in making whole mouse brains transparent and then to reconstruct parts of their neuronal networks with a computer. During their…
Craftsmen tile walls or floors by hand; but how can you get an ordered monolayer onto a substrate when the “tiles” are microscopically small instead of big and…
The cancer drug asparaginase fails to help cure some children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) because molecules released by certain cells in the bone…
Researchers at the Royal Free Hospital in London, which now has the lowest CDI rates of any teaching hospital in the UK, investigated the best way to encourage…
Dyscalculia is just as prevalent in the population as dyslexia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder – around 5% of the population is affected. However,…
The news is reported in the latest edition of the Royal Society of Chemistry journal The Analyst.Drs Thomas Balkenhol and Fred Lisdat and a team at the…
This result is a great advance due to the shortage of donors of this transparent epithelium located in the anterior segment of the eyeball that refracts the…
It is already widely known that the tumour suppressor p53 (a protein) plays a critical role in protecting us from cancer. Much of what we know about p53 comes…
Steve Jackson has emerged as one of the international leaders in the field of recombinational repair, structure of damaged chromatin and cellular DNA damage….
Roger Williams has made a world-leading contribution to our understanding of how inositol lipids can act as messengers regulating the function of proteins at a…
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