Distinguishing between self and non-self is a critical ability of the immune system. Some pathogens have evolved proteins that resemble those of their host, a mechanism called molecular mimicry, in an ...
Researchers at the University of Iowa (UI) Health Care and colleagues at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute, and Boston University, used human skin explants to track the cellular route that the ...
CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Researchers believe they discovered a new type of life form living in the human body that were previously misidentified as viruses. According to a new study from bioRxiv that has ...
Human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are insidious. They can evade the immune defense and antiviral drugs by becoming "latent ...
A 13-year-old girl in British Columbia who was hospitalized with bird flu for several weeks late last year harbored a mutated ...
Scientists worry the species could generate a hybrid virus better able to spread to and among people
Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen on ...
Human skin model helps trace EBOV escape The research team, led by Maury and Kelly Messingham, PhD, UI research professor of dermatology, developed a new approach to examine which cells within the ...
In Malaysia, rabies in humans is primarily diagnosed through a post-mortem, or after clinical symptoms appear, using ...
HPV, a very common virus, is found to hijack the body's cells to directly drive skin cancer growth, even after surgeries and ...
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