Immunology

Antibiotic Resistance: Neither Doctors Nor Patients See Themselves As The Problem

Superbugs. MRSA. Hospital ward closures. Ten million people predicted to die. No new antibiotics. ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 15 2015 - 6:30am

Camels Test Positive For Virus That Causes MERS In Kenya

A new study has found that nearly half of camels in parts of Kenya have been infected by the virus that causes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and calls for further research into the role they might play in the transmission of this emerging diseas ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 26 2015 - 9:00am

How Chickens Walk Holds Clues To How They Spread Disease

Plotting on a grid just how a chicken walks may one day give farmers more insight into how best to protect their flock from non-airborne pathogens that can also hurt their profit. ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 25 2015 - 8:30am

Building Immune System Memory

Vaccines help prevent disease by inducing immunological memory, the ability of immune cells to remember and respond more quickly when re-exposed to the same pathogen. While certain phases of the pathway are well understood, little is known about the role ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 21 2015 - 1:25pm

Advances Made Against Sepsis

Sepsis is an inflammatory response to infection that's known to develop in hospital settings and can turn deadly when it's not discovered early on. In a new study, a hospital surveillance program focusing on reducing the risks of sepsis, known a ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 21 2015 - 2:06pm

Persister Cell- How Bacterial Proteins Promote Antibiotic Resistance

Scientists call them toxins but these bacterial proteins don't poison us, at least not directly. Instead, they restrain the growth of the bacteria that make them, establishing a dormant "persister cell" state that is tolerant to antibiotics ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 29 2015 - 4:12pm

Would We Be Ready For A New Pandemic?

In 2014, one person confirmed with Ebola set off a panic in the United States. Though 28,000 people died of heart disease while media attention focused on that outbreak, and anti-vaccine parents on the West Coast were suddenly prepared to spend any amount ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 28 2015 - 11:42am

The US Must Help South America Combat Chagas Disease

Chagas disease, the third most common parasitic infection in the world, affects approximately 7.5 million people, mostly in Latin America. To help reduce outbreaks of this disease in their countries, the United States and Mexican governments should implem ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 6 2015 - 7:30am

Why The Netherlands HIV Epidemic Among Gay Men Doesn't Subside

The HIV epidemic among gay men in the Netherlands isn't going to decline as long as large, persistent, self-sustaining, and, in many cases, growing sub-epidemics shifting towards new generations of gay men, according to a new paper in PLOS Medicine b ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 4 2015 - 12:00pm

Breast Milk Might Not Protect Babies From Allergies Or Asthma Or Anything Else

Pregnant women and new mothers are inundated with messages regarding the benefits of exclusive breastfeeding for babies in the first year of life and if you don't do that, shame on you for giving your child asthma, food allergies and eczema. ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 5 2015 - 8:57am