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Infectious Diseases

COVID’s Crushing Impact on Public Health

October 15, 2021
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Newark, DE — The cruel impact of COVID-19, the virus that emerged in late 2019 and has claimed 5 million lives to date, is chronicled in daily headlines. It has robbed us of loved ones, jobs, plans...

Metabolic Restoration in HIV-Infected Patients as a Therapeutic Approach

October 14, 2021
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Quebec, Canada — The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) particularly attacks CD4 lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell considered to be the conductor of the immune system. Hamza Loucif, a doctoral...

New Tool Predicts Changes that may Make COVID Variants more Infectious

October 4, 2021
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University Park, PA — As SARS-CoV-2 continues to evolve, new variants are expected to arise that may have an increased ability to infect their hosts and evade the hosts’ immune systems. The first...

Watching SARS-CoV-2 Spread in Animal Models in Real Time

September 30, 2021
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San Antonio, TX — A version of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease, has been successfully modified to glow brightly in cells and animal tissues, providing a real-time way to track the...

Infection Hinders Blood Vessel Repair Following Traumatic Brain or Cerebrovascular Injuries

September 29, 2021
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Bethesda, MD — Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and other injuries to blood vessels in the brain, like stroke, are a leading cause of long-term disability or death. Researchers at the National Institute...

Researchers Explain How Nanomaterial Aids Antibody Response, Study It as Antibody Factory

September 28, 2021
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Ames, IA — The researchers’ original task was to figure out how certain polymer nanomaterials provided for a low-inflammatory immune response and yet were able to boost antibody production as part...

Microneedle Patch Delivers COVID-19 DNA Vaccine; Doesn’t Require Cold Storage

September 28, 2021
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Beijing, China — More than 2 billion people worldwide are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. However, many who live in resource-limited countries haven’t been able to get vaccines, partly because these...

When Organoids Meet Coronaviruses

September 23, 2021
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Utrecht, Netherlands — Researchers from the group of Hans Clevers in collaboration with the group of Bart Haagmans (Erasmus MC) established an organoid biobank to search for the genes that are essential...

Microneedles Pierce Biofilm for more Effective Topical Delivery of Antibiotics to Infected Wounds

September 21, 2021
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West Lafayette, IN — A Purdue University engineer’s patent-pending invention could improve the quality of life for millions of people suffering from diabetic foot ulcers. Rahim Rahimi, an...

New Technology Designed to Genetically Control Disease-Spreading Mosquitoes

September 13, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — Leveraging advancements in CRISPR-based genetic engineering, researchers at the University of California San Diego have created a new system that restrains populations of mosquitoes...

A ‘Lab-free, Lab-Quality’ Testing of RNA Viruses to Prepare for Next Pandemic

September 10, 2021
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Nomi, Japan — With the rapid emergence of new infectious virus strains that result in rapid outbreaks (such as 4 variants of concern (VOCs) of SARS-CoV-2 from Alpha to Delta and 5 variants of interest...

The PANoptosome: a New Frontier in Innate Immune Responses

September 7, 2021
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Memphis, TN — St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital immunologists have identified how immune sensors in infected cells organize and launch a multi-faceted innate immune response to infections with...

Scientists Develop Faster COVID-19 Test

August 23, 2021
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Bethesda, MD — Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed a new sample preparation method to detect SARS-Cov-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The method bypasses extraction...

Drugs Used to Treat Autoimmune Rheumatic Disease may Weaken Immune Response Induced by COVID-19

August 19, 2021
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São Paulo, Brazil — Researchers at the University of São Paulo’s Medical School (FM-USP) in Brazil have found that some types of medication used to treat patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases...

Fast, Accurate System for Quickly Solving Stubborn RNA Structures from Pond Scum, the SARS-CoV-2 Virus and More

August 19, 2021
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Menlo Park, CA — The single-stranded genetic material RNA is best known for guiding the assembly of proteins in our cells and carrying the genetic code for viruses like SARS-CoV-2 and HIV. But 40 years...

Silica Nanostructure with Chemo-Enzymatic Compartmentalization

August 19, 2021
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Pohang, South Korea — As COVID-19 vaccinations are well underway, people await a return to normal life. However, fears also grow due to unforeseen side effects like the rare thrombosis. In the body,...

Understanding Lung Damage in Patients with COVID-19

August 17, 2021
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Berlin, Germany — Researchers from around the globe have spent the past 18 months trying to understand COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Capable of causing acute lung failure,...

Biosensor Permits Ultra-Fast and Cheap Detection of SARS-CoV-2

August 12, 2021
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São Paulo, Brazil — The challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic have stimulated innovation on several fronts. One is the development of low-cost methods of clinical diagnosis. Genosensors are a case...

Graphene Binds Drugs which Kill Bacteria on Medical Implants

August 12, 2021
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Gothenburg, Sweden — Bacterial infections relating to medical implants place a huge burden on healthcare and cause great suffering to patients worldwide. Now, researchers at Chalmers University of...

Fasting may Help Ward Off Infections, Study in Mice Suggests

August 6, 2021
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Vancouver, Canada — Fasting before and during exposure to Salmonella enterica bacteria protects mice from developing a full-blown infection, in part due to changes in the animals’ gut microbiomes, according...

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