Public Release: 19-Jul-2017 Cancer drugs without side effects? Sturdier buildings? This virus might help University of Virginia Health System It’s like the Superman of viruses, astonishingly tough and able to survive in an environment that would dissolve flesh… Read More ›
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Airborne viruses live for 45 minutes
Public Release: 18-Jun-2017 Queensland University of Technology BRISBANE, Australia: Cover your mouth when sneezing or coughing and wash your hands. Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and The University of Queensland (UQ) scientists have developed a new technique to study… Read More ›
Scientists ID mutations that could allow bird flu strain to spread among humans
Public Release: 15-Jun-2017 Monitoring for these mutations could enable timely response to prevent pandemic PLOS IMAGE: Three amino acid changes promote binding to human-type receptors by H7N9 HA. Credit: de Vries RP, et al. (2017) An international team… Read More ›
Uncovered: 1,000 new microbial genomes
Public Release: 12-Jun-2017 Potential biotech applications seen with release of 1,003 reference bacterial and archaeal genomes DOE/Joint Genome Institute The number of microbes in a handful of soil exceeds the number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy, but… Read More ›
Disrupted fat breakdown in the brain makes mice dumb
Public Release: 19-May-2017 Study led by the University of Bonn elucidated a previously unknown possible cause of dementia University of Bonn IMAGE: Healthy control nerve cells with intact ‘garbage bags’ (red). Credit: © AG van Echten-Deckert/Uni Bonn A study… Read More ›
Scientists discover uncommon superbug strain in greater Houston area
Public Release: 16-May-2017 Houston Methodist Houston Methodist Research Institute scientists used genome sequencing to discover that an otherwise rare strain of a superbug was found in more than one-third of the Houston patients studied. This strain is resistant to many… Read More ›
Legionella bacteria’s escape route revealed
Public Release: 11-Apr-2017 eLife The precise mechanism used by Legionella bacteria to escape the body’s defences has been unpicked in intricate detail and is described for the first time in the journal eLife. The study reveals a potential new… Read More ›
How to hack a cell
Public Release: 4-Apr-2017 Boston University engineer programs living cells Boston University College of Engineering The human body is made up of trillions of cells, microscopic computers that carry out complex behaviors according to the signals they receive from… Read More ›
Team discovers how bacteria exploit a chink in the body’s armor
Public Release: 19-Jan-2017 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign IMAGE: Staphylococcus aureus, in yellow, interacts with a human white blood cell. Credit: Photo courtesy the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Scientists have discovered how… Read More ›
What does it take for an AIDS virus to infect a person?
Public Release: 10-Jan-2017 Penn study identifies characteristics of HIV-1 strains that mediate sexual transmission University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine IMAGE: This is HIV infecting a human cell. Credit: NIH Image Gallery PHILADELPHIA – Upon sexual exposure, the… Read More ›
