Baby girls are more likely to acquire HIV from their mothers during pregnancy or childbirth than infant boys, who are conversely more likely to achieve cure...
HIV, Ebola and most recently, COVID-19 viruses have had an enormous impact on our societies world-wide. All these viruses are ‘enveloped viruses,’ viruses that have an...
In a recent study published in the United States (U.S.) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal, researchers investigated the persistence of...
Analysis of the medical records of nearly 50,000 people who experienced dengue fever in Taiwan suggests that this disease is associated with elevated short- and long-term...
Twelve years ago, cancer researchers at University of California San Diego identified a molecule that helps cancer cells survive by shuttling damaging inflammatory cells into tumor...
Dexamethasone is one of the most important drugs in the treatment of severe COVID-19, but patients respond very differently to the therapy. Researchers at the German...
A multinational team led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators developed a test that will help measure the persistence of HIV in people affected by viral strains...
In a recent Nutrients journal study, scientists explore the practices of human milk banks (HMBs) and the health outcomes of infants fed with donated human milk....
JMTV was detected in R. microplus and D. nitens ticks collected from cattle, and A. dissimile collected from iguanas in the Colombian Caribbean (Table 1). This is the third JMTV study...
In a recent study published in the journal Nature, a group of researchers analyzed early cellular response dynamics to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in...
Influenza A viruses (IAVs) in swine are a source of risk to human beings due to their high genetic diversity and absence of population-level immunity. A...
As the deadly disease that came to be known as COVID-19 started spreading in late 2019, scientists rushed to answer a critical question: Who is most...