Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) scientists have discovered a previously unknown method used by bacteria to evade immune responses. The study, published in Nature Microbiology, points to potential new ways of countering bacterial infections, which are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics. First author Dr Pankaj Deo said researchers in Dr Thomas Naderer’s laboratory took a...
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Virus uses decoy strategy to evade immune system, research reveals
by University of Otago University of Otago researchers have learnt more about how viruses operate and can evade the immune system and are now using their discovery to help learn more about COVID-19. The recent research, led by Dr. Mihnea Bostina and Ph.D. student Sai Velamoor from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Otago...
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UCI researchers publish new guide for viral tracers in neural circuit mapping
Center for Neural Circuit Mapping established to disseminate molecular tools to the worldwide neuroscience community UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – IRVINE XU ET AL. REVIEW AND EVALUATE GENETICALLY MODIFIED VIRUSES DEVELOPED FOR NEURAL CIRCUIT MAPPING, INCLUDING HERPESVIRUS, RABIES VIRUS, ADENOVIRUSES, LENTIVIRUSES, AND ADENO-ASSOCIATED VIRUSES.view more CREDIT: UCI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Irvine, CA – August 4, 2020...
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Antibiotics use early in life increases risk of inflammatory bowel disease later in life
Antibiotics use early in life increases risk of inflammatory bowel disease later in life MARTIN BLASER, DIRECTOR OF THE RUTGERS CENTER FOR ADVANCED BIOTECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE view more CREDIT: RUTGERS UNIVERSITY Even short, single antibiotic courses given to young animals can predispose them to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) when they are older, according to Rutgers...
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‘Good’ virus for common infection
Antibiotic-resistant diabetic foot ulcer application FLINDERS UNIVERSITY Australian researchers have shown how viruses can be used to save lives, developing the potential use of bacteriophages in bandages to treat life-threatening golden staph infections which may not respond to traditional antibiotics. Targeting multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (‘golden staph’) in diabetic foot ulcers, Flinders University microbiology researchers have...
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Battle royale: How bacteria fight antibiotics and up the ante in chemical warfare
by Delthia Ricks , Medical Xpress Inadequate development of new antibiotics and rising rates of resistance by bacteria to existing antimicrobials are dual forces pushing the world ever closer to a post-antibiotic era. It has been an 80-year war, the battle pitched by bacteria against the chemical warfare designed to knock out infections—and on multiple...
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How microbiome multi-omics can bolster human health
Sequencing technologies are enabling a deeper analysis of the gut’s microbiome. Researchers can now explore what our microbial inhabitants are doing and how they contribute to, or protect from, disease. investigator of the Human Microbiome Bioactives Resource (HMBR), which provides platforms and methods to integrate 16S sequencing, shotgun metagenomics, metatranscriptomics and meta-metabolomics for microbiome discovery....
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Chemical offers new hope of finding treatments for neglected tropical diseases
by University of York Targeting the Trypanosoma brucei cell cycle: the target represents the compound AB1, and (the dart) its phenotype showed as a parasite with cell cycle defects. Credit: Manuel Saldivia and Andrés Sánchez Scientists say they are a step closer to developing a drug to kill the trypanosome parasite that causes human African...
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Researchers discover first-in-class broad-inhibitor of paramyxovirus polymerases
by Georgia State University A new antiviral drug that is effective against a broad range of human pathogens in the paramyxovirus family, such as the human parainfluenzaviruses and measles virus, has been discovered by researchers in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University. The drug binds to and inhibits paramyxovirus polymerases, the unique...
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Study reveals antiviral effects of curcumin
Reviewed by James Ives, M.Psych. (Editor) Curcumin, a natural compound found in the spice turmeric, could help eliminate certain viruses, research has found. A study published in the Journal of General Virology showed that curcumin can prevent Transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV) – an alpha-group coronavirus that infects pigs – from infecting cells. At higher doses,...