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Predicting fatal fungal infections

Predicting fatal fungal infections

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In a study published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have identified cells in blood that predict which HIV-positive indivi ...


Measuring and modeling blood flow in malaria

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When people have malaria, they are infected with Plasmodium parasites, which enter the body from the saliva of a mosquito, infect cells in the liver, and then spread to red blood cells. Inside the blood cells, the parasites ...


The protein Srebp2 drives cholesterol formation in prion-infected neuronal cells

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Prions are causing fatal and infectious diseases of the nervous system, such as the mad cow disease (BSE), scrapie in sheep or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. Scientists of Helmholtz Zentrum München and Technische Universität ...


Immune cells predict outcome of West Nile virus infection

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Infection with West Nile virus (WNV) causes no symptoms in most people. However, it can cause fever, meningitis, and/or encephalitis. What determines the outcome of infection with WNV in different people has not been determined. ...


Keeping hepatitis C virus at bay after a liver transplant

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

One of the most common reasons for needing a liver transplant is liver failure or liver cancer caused by liver cell infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV). However, in nearly all patients the new liver becomes infected with ...


HIV pays a price for invisibility

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Mutations that help HIV hide from the immune system undermine the virus's ability to replicate, show an international team of researchers in the April 13 issue of the Journal of Experimental Medicine. The study was publis ...


Nearly 90 percent of koalas in Japanese zoos are infected with a virus

Most koalas in Japan carry leukemia virus: report

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 12, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Nearly 90 percent of koalas in Japanese zoos are infected with a virus believed to cause leukemia in the marsupials, a report said.


Can periodontal disease act as a risk factor for HIV-1?

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Apr 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Today, during the 87th General Session of the International Association for Dental Research, convening at the Miami Beach Convention Center, a group of scientists from Nihon University (Tokyo, Japan) will present findings ...


Do patients at risk for B-cell malignancy need antiviral treatment?

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Some studies have shown that a relationship of hepatitis C (HCV) infection with type II mixed cryoglobulinemia exists. However the precise mechanism remains unclear.


The difficult Way to HIV Vaccine

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

T cells are key players in the immune response to HIV, which are able to delete infected cells. This capacity is used for vaccine development against HIV. “To date however, success of this strategy remains elusive. Our understanding ...


Peptic ulcer bacterium alters the body's defense system

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Helicobacter pylori survives in the body by manipulating important immune system cells. This is shown in a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The discovery may lead to new treatm ...


Scientists develop mathematical model to predict the immune response to influenza

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Rochester have developed a mathematical model to predict immune responses to infection with influenza A viruses, including novel viruses such as the emergent 2009 influenza A (H1N1). This ...


Naturally occurring protection against severe malaria

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In a study to be published in the next issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), researchers at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, in Portugal, show that an anti-oxidant drug can protect again ...


HIV vaccine failure probably caused by virus used, says new research

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The recent failure of an HIV vaccine was probably caused by the immune system reacting to the virus 'shell' used to transmit the therapy around the body, according to research published today in the Proceedings of the Na ...


New Synthetic Molecules Trigger Immune Response to HIV and Prostate Cancer

New Synthetic Molecules Trigger Immune Response to HIV and Prostate Cancer

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Yale University have developed synthetic molecules capable of enhancing the body’s immune response to HIV and HIV-infected cells, as well as to prostate cancer cells. Their ...