Scientists Discover Why Staph Vaccines Do Not Work in Humans
The sometimes-pathogenic bacteria Staphylococcus aureus has a long and intimate relationship with people, one that helps it fend off our immune response. Staphylococcus aureus is…
Infectious Diseases
Caltech’s Nanoparticle Vaccine Protects Against a Wide Range of COVID-19-Causing Variants and Related Viruses
A new type of vaccine provides protection against a variety of SARS-like betacoronaviruses, including COVID-19 variants, in mice and monkeys, according to a new study…
New COVID-19 Antiviral Medications That Could Prevent Other Coronaviruses From Causing Havoc
Speeding up the search for effective new COVID-19 antivirals. An arsenal of measures to prevent and treat viral infections is needed for the world to…
Increased Risk of Serious Blood Clots Up to Six Months After COVID-19
Research uncovered an increased risk of pulmonary embolism (a blood clot in the lung) up to six months after covid-19 infection, deep vein thrombosis (a…
Seeking COVID’s Kryptonite: Best UV Light for COVID-19 Virus Disinfection
NIST and DHS research collaboration reveals which wavelengths of UV light work best for COVID-19 virus disinfection. To disinfect a surface, you can illuminate it…
Revealed: How Immune Response Triggered by COVID-19 May Damage the Brain
Findings by the NIH could give insight into the long-term neurological symptoms of COVID-19. New research describes the immune response triggered by COVID-19 infection that…
Mayo Clinic Reveals Data on Rebound COVID-19 Symptoms After Paxlovid Treatment
Mayo Clinic researchers studied the outcomes of treating high-risk patients for COVID-19 with a five-day oral regimen of nirmatrelvir and ritonavir, which are together marketed…
Scientists Discover First Effective Drug Treatment Against Hepatitis A
Scientists Discover Key to Hepatitis A Virus Replication, Show Drug Effectiveness With no current treatments for hepatitis A, scientists at the University of North Carolina…
What Scientists Just Discovered About Monkeypox Virus on Surfaces
German scientists detected viral DNA in monkeypox patient’s rooms, but caution that surface contamination with virus DNA or viable virus does not prove that infection…
Some Viruses Make You Smell Tastier to Mosquitoes – Increasing the Spread of Disease
Dengue and Zika viruses alter the microbiome in both humans and mice to attract mosquitoes and spread to new hosts. Zika and dengue fever viruses…
Scientists Target a Human Protein To Squash COVID-19 and Other Viruses
More than two years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, people are realizing that the “new normal” will probably involve learning to co-exist with SARS-CoV-2 (the…
Monkeypox Outbreak: “This Is an Entirely New Spread of the Disease”
One thousand confirmed cases of monkeypox, an infectious disease originating in Africa, have been recorded since early May across at least 30 non-endemic countries such…
Increase in Guillain-Barré Syndrome Following AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine
A correlation between a first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine and a small but significant rise in cases of the serious neurological condition Guillain-Barré syndrome,…
COVID-19 Positive Patients at Far Higher Risk of Developing Serious Neurodegenerative Disorders
COVID-19 positive outpatients are at a far increased risk of neurodegenerative disorders compared with individuals who tested negative for the virus, a new study presented…
New Research: COVID-19 Vaccines Saved 20 Million Lives Worldwide in the First Year
First modeling study to quantify the impact of COVID-19 vaccines on a global scale estimates that 19.8 million out of a potential 31.4 million deaths…
MIT Scientists Discover Molecules in Mucus That Can Fight Fungal Infection
Harnessing the strength of specialized sugar molecules found in mucus could help researchers develop new antifungal drugs. Candida albicans is a yeast that often lives…
Hunting for the Immune Cells That Lead to Severe COVID-19
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering researchers point to macrophages. When a virus makes its way into a person’s body, one of the…
MIT’s New Nanoparticle Sensor Can Distinguish Between Viral and Bacterial Pneumonia
Doctors could use this diagnostic to avoid prescribing antibiotics in cases where they won’t be effective. Pneumonia can be caused by many different types of…
