Immunology

Not everyone who contracts the Ebola virus dies, the survival rate is actually around 30%, which means some kind of immunity to the disease is possible. Experimental treatments and vaccines against Ebola exist but there was little interest from government ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 27 2014 - 1:31pm

People Without Symptoms Aren't Going To Give You Ebola- Here Is Why

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Article - The Conversation - Oct 28 2014 - 5:31pm

Despite Ebola Concern, Global Infection Outbreaks Have Been Declining For Decades

Ebola is causing a lot of concern, a few instances in the United States were enough to lead to calls to overthrow the FDA vaccine approval process and the White House declared that the United States Department of Health and Human Services was unqualified ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 29 2014 - 10:36am

ABC Transporter Complex: How Cells Defend Themselves Against Antibiotics

The structure of an asymmetrical ABC transporter complex has been determined with the aid of a high-resolution cryo-electron microscope. ABC transporters cause bacteria and other pathogens to become resistant to antibiotics. They can also help cancer cell ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 5 2014 - 10:17am

Discovered: Vaccine-Resistant Polio Strain

A serious epidemic of poliomyelitis that struck the Republic of the Congo in 2010 has been identified as a vaccine-resistant strain of polio. The epidemic affected 445 people in the city of Pointe-Noire, the economic capital of the country, killing almost ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 5 2014 - 1:28am

Overuse Of Antibiotics Tied To Increase In Clostridium Difficile Infection

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Article - The Conversation - Nov 7 2014 - 11:01am

Gut Bacteria Implicated In Whether Or Not Your Clothes Fit

If you read the marketing claims for probiotics and supplements, and an alarming number of papers that have made spurious claims to feed the fad, you might think gut bacteria were the magic bullet for a lot of diseases. A new paper says they even determine ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 7 2014 - 10:05am

Strain 115: The Killer Bacteria Inside Your Thanksgiving Turkey

While an alarming number of wealthy people think organic food contains no chemicals, the opposite is true. Not only is everything chemical, the most organic of organic Thanksgiving meals is stuffed full of mutagens and carcinogens, at least in environment ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 25 2014 - 3:05pm

Borrelidin Bacteria Analogs Are Drug Candidates Against Malaria

Malaria is one of the most serious health problems worldwide, registering 200 million clinical cases and more than 600,000 attributable deaths per year, according to information from the World Health Organization in 2013. Given the emerging resistance to ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 10 2014 - 11:33am

Why Chinese Biotech Cotton Doesn't Lead To Pest Resistance, Even Without Non-Bt Refuges

In the United States in the 1930s, climate change and droughts and excessive agricultural practices combined to give the country a 'Dust Bowl'- as farmers became more stressed during the Depression they farmed harder, so ancient agricultural pra ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 15 2014 - 12:38pm