Genetics

  • FDA Authorizes Emergency Use of Another Test for 2009 H1N1 Influenza Virus
    The Food and Drug Administration (FDA)  today announced it has issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for a another diagnostic test for the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus, whose spread has caused the virus to be characterized as a pandemic by the World Health ...More
    July 27, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Researchers Map How Staph Infections Alter Immune System
    Infectious disease specialists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have mapped the gene profiles of children with severe Staphylococcus aureus infections, providing crucial insight into how the human immune system is programmed to respond to this pathogen and opening new ...More
    July 14, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Mystery E. coli Genes Essential for Survival of Many Species
    Scientists have shown that E. coli – one of the best known and extensively studied organisms in the world – remains an enigma that may hold the key to human diseases, such as cancer. The team, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council ...More
    July 13, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Influenza Virus in 1918 and Today
    The influenza virus that wreaked worldwide havoc in 1918-1919 founded a viral dynasty that persists to this day, according to scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). In an article published online yesterday by the New England ...More
    June 30, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Researchers Examine “Invading” Bacteria in DNA
    Researchers at Texas A&M University's Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering have discovered how certain types of bacteria integrate the DNA that they have captured from invading enemies into their own genetic makeup to increase their chances of survival. To ...More
    June 2, 2009
    Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization
  • Study Finds Unexpected Bacterial Diversity on Human Skin
    The health of our skin — one of the body’s first lines of defense against illness and injury — depends upon the delicate balance between our own cells and the millions of bacteria and other one-celled microbes that live on its surface. To better understand ...More
    May 29, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Researchers Uncover Mechanism Allowing Flu Virus to Evade the Body's Immune Response
    Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) have identified a critical molecular mechanism that allows the influenza virus to evade the body's immune response system. The study will be published in the May 21 issue of the journal Cell Host & Microbe. "We ...More
    May 20, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Novel Vaccine Offers Hope in Fight Against HIV
    A research team may have broken the stubborn impasse that has frustrated the invention of an effective HIV vaccine, by using an approach that bypasses the usual path followed by vaccine developers. By using gene transfer technology that produces molecules that block ...More
    May 18, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Swine Flu Genes Dissimilar to Past Pandemics
    Some genetic markers of influenza infection severity have been identified from past outbreaks. Researchers have failed to find most of these markers, described in the open access journal BMC Microbiology, in samples of the current swine-flu strain.Jonathan Allen and Tom ...More
    May 6, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Older Men More Likely Than Women to Die After Pneumonia
    Differing biological response to infection between men and women may explain higher death rates among older men who are hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). The findings, published online in the Critical Care Medicine journal, may have important ...More
    April 29, 2009
    Posted in News
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