Immunology

HPV Vaccine Credited With 61 Percent Decrease In Female Genital Warts

Doctors in Australia are reporting 61 percent fewer cases of genital warts among young women since the introduction of the national human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program. The study reviewed more than a million patient encounters between 2000 and ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 7 2014 - 12:38pm

New Soldier In The Body's Anti-Virus Army Discovered

When it comes to defense against viruses, the immune system has an arsenal of weapons at its disposal, including killer cells, antibodies and messenger molecules, and when a pathogen attacks the body, the immune system usually activates the appropriate me ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2014 - 12:01pm

Repair The Muscles In Muscular Dystrophy, Not The Genetic Defect

The saying goes that we shouldn't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, so while there is no cure for muscular dystrophy, rather than solely focusing on the underlying genetic defect might not help people right now as directly targeting muscle re ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 15 2014 - 10:30am

Ebola Virus And Protein Secrets

The current Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa has claimed more than 2000 lives and has spurred calls for a deeper understanding of the molecular biology of the virus that could be critical in the development of vaccines or antiviral drugs to treat or pr ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 17 2014 - 2:02am

Genetically Modified Kamikaze Mosquitoes Take Out Diseases

By Marsha Lewis, Inside Science (Inside Science TV) – One of the deadliest forces on earth is the humble mosquito. Mosquito-borne diseases like malaria, chikungunya, yellow fever and West Nile virus infect more than 350 million people and kill another 1 m ...

Article - Inside Science - Sep 16 2014 - 7:30am

Vancomycin Modified To Vanquish Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

Scientists have devised a new antibiotic based on vancomycin that is effective against vancomycin-resistant strains of  methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other disease-causing bacteria. The new vancomycin analog appears to have not one ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 17 2014 - 5:30pm

Leukemia's Waterloo: The Battle For Cell Production

To fight leukemia, we have to fight on its terms, and that means understanding the nature of the fight for superiority between mutated genes and normal genes, according to a paper that investigated Acute Myeloid Leukemia to understand why leukemic cells a ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 18 2014 - 1:30pm

Cell Conversion And How DNA 'Bias' May Keep Some Diseases In Circulation

It's an early lesson in genetics: we get half our DNA from Mom, half from Dad. But that straightforward explanation does not account for a process that sometimes occurs when cells divide. Called gene conversion, the copy of a gene from Mom can replac ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 5 2014 - 9:08am

Blackflies Implicated In Nodding Syndrome

Though it has been researched for decades, the cause of nodding syndrome, a disabling disease affecting African children, is unknown. A new report suggests that blackflies infected with the parasite Onchocerca volvulus may be capable of passing on a second ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 3 2014 - 7:30am

Are Ebola Drug Researchers Developing ‘Death Drugs’ That Could Wipe Out Humanity?

Credit: Institute of Responsible Technology By Jon Entine, Genetic Literacy Project It’s perplexing that strident anti-GMO critics who regularly harp on the “danger” of harvesting a “foreign” gene from one species and inserting into another to improve cro ...

Article - Jon Entine - Oct 9 2014 - 8:00am