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May 24 | News
Researchers
at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory have invented a simple,
inexpensive dip-and-dry treatment can convert ordinary silk into a
fabric that kills disease-causing bacteria—even the armor-coated spores
of microbes like anthrax—in minutes.
May 24 | News
The
highly pathogenic hantavirus causes a condition known as hantavirus
pulmonary syndrome (HPS), which has a case fatality rate of 35-40%. To
help the fight against a disease that has no vaccine, U.S. Army
scientists and industry collaborators have successfully protected
laboratory animals from lethal hantavirus disease using a novel approach
that combines DNA vaccines and duck eggs.
May 22 | News
Biomedical engineers at University of California, Davis have
developed a microfluidic chip to test for latent tuberculosis. They hope
the
test will be cheaper, faster, and more reliable than current testing for
the
disease.
May 22 | News
A biomedical informatics researcher who tracks dangerous viruses as they spread around the globe has restructured his innovative tracking software to promote even wider use of the program around the world.
May 21 | News
Hundreds
of tiny hollow needles stick out of the membrane of a bacteria that
causes cholera. These are treacherous tools that makes bacterial
pathogens so dangerous. Researchers in the U.S. and Germany have now
seen this structure in 3D detail at atomic resolution. The images may
help drug researchers.
May 14 | News
A
research team at Rutgers University has been able to take a new
pharmacological approach to activate the immune cells to prevent cancer
growth through stimulation of the opiate receptors found on immune
cells.
May 11 | News
Doctors have long known that treating patients with multiple cancer drugs often produces better results than treatment with just a single drug. Now, a study from Massachusetts Institute of Technology shows that the order and timing of drug administration can have a dramatic effect.
May 10 | News
The superbugs have met their match. Conceived at Nanyang Technological University, it comes in the form of a coating which has a magnetic-like feature that attracts bacteria and kills them without the need for antibiotics.
May 10 | News
In
order to reactivate silenced genes, a cell needs to remove certain
“off” markers called methyl groups from the DNA. Scientists have
recently shown that this process involves an intermediate step and an
enzyme that also plays a role in the development of blood cancer. The
finding could lead to new ideas for cancer-fighting therapies.
May 9 | News
Researchers at the University of Michigan have identified new targets for drugs that could potentially treat anthrax, the deadly infection caused by Bacillus anthracis. The team found a new way to block the bacteria's ability to capture iron, which is vital to its survival and its disease-causing properties.
