Research team identifies key step in process of Shigella infection
Researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Division of Infectious Diseases are investigating the mechanism by which several important pathogenic species of bacteria deliver proteins into...
View ArticlePrestigious Texas lab cited again for animal deaths
A prestigious laboratory in Texas already under federal investigation after inspectors determined it didn't do enough to prevent the suffering of primates is facing more scrutiny after animals in...
View ArticleKnowledge of bacteria's origin and spread can prevent disease
Salmonella Typhimurium DT104 is an aggressive type of bacteria, which is particularly problematic because it has developed resistance to a number of antimicrobials and has been able to quickly spread...
View ArticleParticulate vaccine delivery systems may help protect against infectious...
Most traditional vaccines have safety and efficacy issues, whereas particulate vaccine delivery systems—which utilize nano- or micro-particulate carriers to protect and deliver antigens—are efficient,...
View ArticleNeanderthals may have been infected by diseases carried out of Africa by humans
A new study suggests that Neanderthals across Europe may well have been infected with diseases carried out of Africa by waves of anatomically modern humans, or Homo sapiens. As both were species of...
View ArticleVirus therapy to attack superbugs
VIRUSES specifically designed to battle superbugs are being trialled in a South Australian hospital.
View ArticleThe rise and fall of the antibiotic age
It's a dog-eat-dog world, but in the lab of University of Alberta bacteriologist Jon Dennis, it's actually virus-eat-bacteria.
View ArticleNew material kills E. coli bacteria in 30 seconds
Every day, we are exposed to millions of harmful bacteria that can cause infectious diseases, such as the E. coli bacteria. Now, researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN)...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing platform makes public gene expression data more accessible
Scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, have developed a free online platform that uses a crowdsourcing approach to...
View ArticleMore research is needed on how climate change affects infectious diseases
It is time we act proactively to minimize the effect of climate change on our health, say the researchers behind a new review published in Environment International. To do this, more cross-disciplinary...
View ArticleStudy describes new strategies for investigating microbial outbreaks
In a new study published in Frontiers in Microbiology, Mark Eppinger, assistant professor in the Department of Biology at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) describes innovative strategies...
View ArticleAncient feces provides earliest evidence of infectious disease being carried...
An ancient latrine near a desert in north-western China has revealed the first archaeological evidence that travellers along the Silk Road were responsible for the spread of infectious diseases along...
View ArticleEcologists create a framework for predicting new infectious diseases
Ecologists at the University of Georgia are leading a global effort to predict where new infectious diseases are likely to emerge. In a paper published in Ecology Letters, they describe how...
View ArticleResearchers develop method to speed up detection of infectious diseases, cancer
A team of UCLA researchers has found a way to speed and simplify the detection of proteins in blood and plasma opening up the potential for diagnosing the early presence of infectious diseases or...
View ArticleNewly deciphered structure suggests how infectious prions replicate
Infectious prions or PrPSc—misfolded versions of the normal cellular prion protein PrPC—convert their normal counterparts into copies of themselves and thereby cause fatal disease. How this conversion...
View ArticleScientists enhance ability of antibiotics to defeat resistant types of...
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have developed a strategy to overcome a key defense that drug-resistant bacteria use to fend off antibiotic attack.
View ArticleTransmission of new virus believed to occur between farmed and wild fish
In 2010, researchers found a new fish virus that was named piscine reovirus (PRV).
View ArticleThe genome is all about architecture
Many serious diseases such as malaria or AIDS present a major challenge for medicine because the causative pathogens use the same strategy although they are completely different: By camouflaging...
View ArticleNew optical biosensor can diagnose infections in few seconds
Russian scientists have developed a new laser technology for fabricating novel optical biosensors that are capable of identifying infectious diseases in seconds. The device reveals harmful bacteria and...
View ArticleAutomating sample testing in space
A miniaturised biotech unit developed for the International Space Station is improving medical diagnoses on Earth with affordable automation of small-scale diagnostics.
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