by The Mount Sinai Hospital Influenza viruses, like the model shown here, display several kinds of surface proteins on their exteriors. Credit: NIAID Researchers have identified the gene TDRD7 as a key regulator against influenza A virus (IAV), which causes respiratory tract infections in 5 to 20 percent of the human population. These findings could...
KTH, ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY IMAGE: A CLOSE UP OF THE DENDRITIC HYDROGEL DEVELOPED AT KTH ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CREDIT: MALKOCH GROUP/KTH ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY In the fight against multidrug-resistant bacteria, scientists in Sweden have developed a new kind of antibiotic-free protection for wounds that kills drug-resistant bacteria and induces the body’s own...
by NYU Langone Health Credit: CC0 Public Domain At the beginning of an immune response, a molecule known to mobilize immune cells into the bloodstream, where they home in on infection sites, rapidly shifts position, a new study shows. Researchers say this indirectly amplifies the attack on foreign microbes or the body’s own tissues. Past studies had shown...
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER Cancer cells are known for spreading genetic chaos. As cancer cells divide, DNA segments and even whole chromosomes can be duplicated, mutated, or lost altogether. This is called chromosomal instability, and scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering have learned that it is associated with cancer’s aggressiveness. The more unstable chromosomes are,...
