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Experimental Ebola Vaccines Elicit Year-Long Immune Response

Oct 12, 2017

A volunteer receives an injection in the PREVAIL Ebola vaccine clinical trial in Liberia. Courtesy of NIH...

Researchers Find Mechanism Involved in Novel Drug Design With Potential to Treat Tuberculosis

Oct 12, 2017

This is M. tuberculosis phosphatase structure with cysteine residues 11 and 16, that together with a network of...

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Combination of El Nino and 2016 Ecuador Earthquake Likely Worsened Zika Outbreak

Oct 12, 2017

The lack of reliable access to water led people to store water around their home, increasing the number of places for mosquitoes (especially Aedes aegypti) to reproduce. Courtesy of Walking Palms Global Initiative A Zika virus outbreak in coastal...

Disrupting Staph's 'Naps' May Lead to New Antibiotics

Oct 12, 2017

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Norovirus Evades Immune System by Hiding Out in Rare Gut Cells

Oct 11, 2017

Noroviruses are the leading cause of non-bacterial gastroenteritis in the world and are estimated to cause 267 million infections and 20,000 deaths each year. This virus causes severe diarrhea, nausea, and stomach pain. Although often referred to...

Researchers Create Map of the Gut's Microbial Landscape

Oct 11, 2017

A collaborative effort by a team of researchers from three institutions including the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, the Forsyth Institute in Cambridge and Washington University in St. Louis provided an early glimpse of how...

Calcium Lets T Cells Use Sugar to Multiply and Fight Infection

Oct 11, 2017

A calcium signal controls whether immune cells can use the nutrients needed to fuel their multiplication into a cellular army...

Predatory Bacteria: The Quest for a New Class of Antibiotics

Oct 11, 2017

B. bacteriovorus has two life phases: 1) searching for prey, and 2) entering the prey and feeding. During this second phase, t...

Without a Nudge, Old Antibiotic Prescribing Habits Die Hard for Clinicians

Oct 11, 2017

Low-cost approaches that nudge physicians to reduce unnecessary prescriptions for antibiotics could have a significant impact...

Better Organoids Could Help Scientists Identify Treatments for Zika-Related Brain Damage

Oct 11, 2017

These are organoids before (left) and after exposure to Zika (center), and after treatment (right). Courtesy of UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center/Cell Reports UCLA researchers have developed an improved technique for creating simplified human ...

Effect of Stopping Behavioral Interventions on Inappropriate Antibiotic Prescribing

Oct 10, 2017

In the 12 months after removing behavioral interventions, inappropriate antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory infections increased relative to control practices, according to a study published by JAMA...

Antibiotics Before Low-Risk Operations Do Not Appear to Breed Post-op Antibiotic Resistance

Oct 10, 2017

Surgical patients who receive antibiotics before certain types of low-risk operations are not at an increased risk for antibiotic-resistant infections immediately after their procedures, according to results from a large-scale study conducted by...

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