Immunology

An international research team has identified a new superbug that caused a bloodstream infection in a Brazilian patient. The new superbug is part of a class of highly-resistant bacteria known as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA, which i ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 17 2014 - 12:39pm

Malaria Pathogen's Cellular Skeleton Gets A Super-Microscope Look

The tropical disease malaria is caused by the Plasmodium parasite. For its survival and propagation, Plasmodium requires a protein called actin. Scientists of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Germany used high-resolution structural bio ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 17 2014 - 9:34pm

Where Did The The Pandemic Flu Virus Of 1918 Come From?

One of the foremost biomedical mysteries of the past century is the origin of the 1918 pandemic flu virus and its unusual severity, which resulted in a death toll of approximately 50 million people. A new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 29 2014 - 12:30pm

Antibodies Against Deadly MERS Identified

Researchers writing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) have identified natural human antibodies against the virus that causes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), a step toward developing treatments for the newly emerging and of ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 28 2014 - 7:00pm

Would We Be Better Equipped To Survive The Bubonic Plague Today?

The Bubonic Plague wiped put a giant swath of the affected populations, it was truly an Old Testament wrath-of-God phenomenon- but it also led to a wave of agricultural innovation and the creation of a middle class (How The Bubonic Plague Made Europe Grea ...

Article - News Staff - May 7 2014 - 5:21pm

Gluten-Free Diet, Less Risk Of Type 1 Diabetes?

Gluten-free fads are all the rage and a preliminary result by reseachers at the University of Copenhagen want to see if there are health benefits for people who don't have celiac disease. Their experiments on found that mouse mothers on a gluten-free ...

Article - News Staff - May 8 2014 - 4:30am

Zinc Supplementation Boosts Immune System In Children- Review

Zinc supplements reduce diarrhea, one of the biggest killers of kids under five, and other infections in malnourished children, according to a review in The Cochrane Library. Zinc is a micronutrient with important roles in growth and in the immune, nervo ...

Article - News Staff - May 14 2014 - 9:00pm

Watch New AIDS Virus Particles Form

Researchers have devised a way to watch newly forming AIDS virus particles emerge or "budd" from infected human cells. They have also found that a protein named ALIX gets involved during the final stages of virus replication, not earlier, as was ...

Article - News Staff - May 18 2014 - 9:30am

Deaths 30X Higher Than Landmines: Developing A Universal Antidote For Snakebite

Snakebite is one of the most neglected of all tropical diseases, with nearly 5 million people bitten by snakes each year and fatalities globally up to 30 times higher than that of land mines and comparable to AIDS in some developing countries. It has been ...

Article - News Staff - May 28 2014 - 9:44am

Helicobacter Pylori Stomach Bacteria May Cause Stomach Ulcers- Or Protect You From Obesity

The germ Helicobacter pylori is the cause of most stomach ulcers, but a new review of the literature published in Alimentary Pharmacology&Therapeutics suggests that treating the bacteria is linked to weight gain. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2014 - 10:31am