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…
Hematopoietic stem cells give rise to all other blood cells. Writing in the February 2, 2014 advance online issue of Nature Genetics, principal investigator…
Stanford researchers may have solved a riddle about the inner workings of the brain, which consists of billions of neurons, organized into many different…
Chances are you won't know you've got a staph infection until the test results come in, days after the symptoms first appear. But what if your physician could…
“Understanding how and why dormant cells in bone tissue metastasize will aid us in preventing the spread of disease, prolonging survival and improving overall…
A research team led by Wayne State University, in collaboration with Michigan State University, has identified a single gene in honeybees that separates the…
Scientists have now identified, for the first time, a way in which this decreased functional connectivity can come about. In a study published online today in…
Until a few years ago, scientific opinion held that Hepatitis C (HCV) was only transmitted in the blood, and therefore almost exclusively through blood…
“We found that 27 percent of the mice exposed to one of three different doses of BPA through their mother's diet developed liver tumors and some precancerous…
The research team from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute found that the immune system was responsible for eliminating potentially cancerous immune B cells in…
In a similar way, a cellular waste management system constantly picks up superfluous proteins and damaged organelles in human cells and delivers them to…
This signal regulates the number of centrosomes in the cell, and its absence results in the development of pathologically altered cells. Remarkably, such…
“It's like singing a duet, but with smells instead of sounds,” said Christine Drea, a Duke University professor who supervised the study. Duke researchers…
As the research group led by Professor Silvia Arber at the University of Basel's Biozentrum and the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research has…
A joint study published in Cell by the teams headed by Miquel Coll at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and the Institute of Molecular…
But, biologists think that vaccine adjuvants could be much better: The currently available licensed adjuvants are poor inducers of T helper cells and even…
A team of researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has found that moderate to severe hot flashes continue, on…
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