By Pat Hagan Published: 07:00 EDT, 19 September 2024 | Updated: 08:09 EDT, 19 September 2024 Quit smoking, go easy on the alcohol and stick to a healthy diet. For years, this has been the mantra for reducing our risk of cancer, a disease that now affects one in two of us at some point...
JULY 22, 2024 by Christine Yu, Pennsylvania State University KDR inhibition induces autophagic/lysosomal degradation of Tax. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49737-5A team of researchers from Penn State College of Medicine found a new target for treating diseases associated with human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1). They determined that blocking a class of enzymes...
by University of California, San Francisco Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainThe COVID-19 virus can persist in the blood and tissue of patients for more than a year after the acute phase of the illness has ended, according to new research from UC San Francisco that offers potential clues to why some people develop long COVID. The scientists...
By Joe Hernandez In January, a man living on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula died of Alaskapox. Pictured is Bear Glacier in the Kenai Fjords National Park on Sept. 1, 2015, in Seward, Alaska. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty ImagesAlaska health officials reported last week that a man died in January after contracting a virus known as Alaskapox....
Using a DNA-based scaffold carrying viral proteins, researchers created a vaccine that provokes a strong antibody response against SARS-CoV-2Peer-Reviewed Publication MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Using a virus-like delivery particle made from DNA, researchers from MIT and the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard have created a vaccine that can induce a strong antibody response...
ETH Zurich researchers have found a virus that kills dormant bacteria. This rare discovery could help to combat germs that can’t be treated with antibiotics alone. The paride phage (purple) is one of the few phages to attack dormant bacteria. Image credit: Fabienne Estermann & Enea Maffei / ETH Zurich In nature, most bacteria live...
By Amanda Musa and Carma Hassan, CNN About 92% of US children have been vaccinated against measles, mumps and rubella by age 2, according to the CDC – below the federal target of 95%.George Frey/Getty ImagesCNNNearly a dozen cases of measles have been reported in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Georgia in recent weeks, according to local...
By CLARE WATSON koto_feja/Getty Images) Epstein-Barr virus, a common virus that infects most people at some point in their lives, has long been suspected as a trigger of multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease affecting around 36 people in every 100,000 worldwide. But exactly how this virus trips the immune system into attacking the body’s own...
Peer-Reviewed Publication UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO A microscopic discovery will not only enable scientists to understand the microbial world around us but could also provide a new way to control CRISPR-Cas biotechnologies. An international team of researchers led by Professor Peter Fineran from the University of Otago and Dr Rafael Pinilla-Redondo from the University of Copenhagen...
Reviewed by Lily Ramsey, LLMAs summer edges toward fall, thoughts turn to, well, vaccines. Yes, inevitably, it’s time to think about the usual suspects — influenza and covid-19 shots — but also the new kid in town: recently approved vaccines for RSV, short for respiratory syncytial virus. But who should get the various vaccines, and...
