Plague

  • Lungs Infected with Plague Bacteria Also Become Playgrounds for Other Microbes
    Among medical mysteries baffling many infectious disease experts is exactly how the deadly pneumonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, goes undetected in the first few day of lung infection, often until it’s too late for medical treatment. New research from the University ...More
    2 weeks ago
    Posted in News
  • Study Explains Plague's Rapid Evolution, Sheds Light on Fighting Deadly Diseases
    In the evolutionary blink of an eye, a bacterium that causes mild stomach irritation evolved into a deadly assassin responsible for the most devastating pandemics in human history. How did the mild-mannered Yersinia pseudotuberculosis become Yersinia pestis, more commonly ...More
    August 29, 2011
    Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
  • A New Discovery in Battle Against Plague and Bacterial Pneumonias
    Researchers from the Stephen Smiley lab at the Trudeau Institute have now identified a single component of the plague causing bacterium that can be used as a vaccine. This single "subunit" could potentially be used to create a safer form of a T cell-stimulating plague ...More
    June 28, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Mummies Tell the History of a 'Modern' Plague
    Mummies from along the Nile are revealing how age-old irrigation techniques may have boosted the plague of schistosomiasis, a water-borne parasitic disease that infects an estimated 200 million people today. ...More
    May 23, 2011
    Posted in News
  • SNL Unlocks Secrets of Plague with New Imaging Techniques
    Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a super-resolution microscopy technique that is answering long-held questions about exactly how and why a cell’s defenses fail against some invaders, such as plague, while successfully fending off others like ...More
    May 17, 2011
    Posted in News
  • The Secrets of Plague are Revealed
    In work that is pushing the "diffraction barrier" associated with microscopic imaging of living cells, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque demonstrated the power of a new super-resolution microscopy technique called Stochastic Optical Reconstruction ...More
    March 9, 2011
    Posted in News
  • New Discovery Could Lead to Vaccines for Plague and Bacterial Pneumonias
    There is an ongoing battle in the "war on terror" that remains mostly unseen to the public -- a race between scientists working to develop a vaccine to protect against plague and the terrorists who seek to use plague as a weapon. "Governments remain concerned that ...More
    January 25, 2011
    Posted in News
  • New Research Provides Detailed Reconstructions of Past Plagues
    A multi-national team of academic, government and industry scientists from Europe, China and the United States published data reconstructing the global evolutional history of devastating plague pandemics in unprecedented detail. This includes the notorious Black Death ...More
    November 1, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Plague Researchers Race to Beat Bioterrorists
    Given the many pressing concerns of the day, fear of plague probably isn’t what causes most Americans to lose sleep. But for those whose responsibility it is to combat bioterrorism, plague is among the highest priorities. Those charged with that mission include scientists ...More
    September 20, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Climate Change May Affect Plague Distribution and Incidence
    While many climate experts and environmentalists explore the negative effects of global warming, a new study reveals a positive outcome of the warming of the planet: the potential elimination of the plague. Global warming affects temperatures and precipitation regimes that ...More
    September 7, 2010
    Posted in News
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