Infectious Emerging Diseases

July 26, 2021

New ‘atlas’ charts how antibodies attack spike protein variants

July 23, 2021

Antibodies capable of neutralizing multiple SARS-CoV-2 strains can inform strategies for broadly protective COVID-19 booster vaccines As the SARS-CoV-2 virus...

UMass Amherst grad student awarded fellowship for food allergy research

July 23, 2021

USDA program focuses on developing next generation of food scientistsCredit: UMass Amherst University of Massachusetts Amherst food science Ph.D. candidate...

New insights into immune responses to malaria

July 23, 2021

Credit: WEHI, Australia Advanced technologies have been used to solve a long-standing mystery about why some people develop serious illness...

Cell-analysis technique could combat tuberculosis

ITHACA, N.Y. - A new method that analyzes how individual immune cells react to the bacteria that cause tuberculosis could...

Study points to remotely supervised exercise classes as best option during lockdown

Based on data for 344 volunteers, Brazilian researchers compared the physical and mental health benefits of workouts led in person...

Interaction identified between SARS-CoV-2 and unusual RNA structures in human cells

Replication of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, depends on a series of interactions between viral proteins and different cellular...

Prostate cancer treatment among black, white patients during pandemic

What The Study Did: This study included 647 patients with untreated nonmetastatic prostate cancer (269 patients during the pandemic and...

New insights into uncontrolled inflammation in COVID-19 patients

Research led by Queen Mary University of London provides new insight into the mechanisms that lead to uncontrolled inflammation in...

Long COVID and severe COVID-19 infections associated with Epstein-Barr virus reactivation

Credit: Jeffrey E. Gold, Ramazan A. Okyay, Warren E. Licht, and David J. Hurley Two recently published studies available on...

Existing drug is shown to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 virus

A new University of Chicago study has found that the drug masitinib may be effective in treating COVID-19. The drug,...

Study links vaccine immune response to age

New OHSU laboratory research highlights importance of increasing vaccination to protect older vaccinated adults Older people appear to have fewer...

New method predicts COVID-19 severity, could help with hospital triage

During the height of the pandemic, some hospitals were overwhelmed with patients seeking treatment for COVID-19. This situation could happen...

Heart-related test results may indicate risk of death in patients with COVID-19

New research published in the European Journal of Clinical Investigation identifies cardiovascular test results that might help to identify patients...

More than 1.5M children lost a primary or secondary caregiver due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Addressing the impact of caregiver deaths critical for pediatric mental health, authors note More than 1.5 million children around the...

The Lancet: 1.5 million children worldwide have lost parent, grandparent, caregiver due to COVID-19

Study offers first global estimates of the number of children who experienced the death of a parent, grandparent, or primary...

Strong immune response underlies acute kidney injury related to COVID-19

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Mayo Clinic researchers have found that acute kidney injury associated with COVID-19 resembles sepsis-caused kidney injury, and...

Public trust in CDC, FDA, and Fauci holds steady, survey shows

But heavy users of conservative media have less confidence and are more likely to believe in conspiracy theoriesCredit: Annenberg Public...

SARS-CoV-2 spike mutation L452R evades human immune response and enhances infectivity

Credit: Dr. Chihiro Motozono An international team of researchers led by Kumamoto and Tokyo Universities (Japan) have shown that the...

WVU-led team, through NIH grant, ramps up COVID-19 testing in rural West Virginia

For the past seven months, the West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute has helped add to COVID-19 testing throughout...

Study refutes suspicion that dengue increases risk of microcephaly associated with zika