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June 30, 2022 Zika and dengue fever viruses alter the scent of mice and humans they infect, a team of researchers report. The altered scent attracts mosquitoes, which bite the host, drink their infected blood and ...
Aug. 23, 2021 The highest-ever resolution imaging of an infectious prion provides the first atomic-level data of how these abnormal proteins are assembled to cause fatal neurodegenerative diseases in people and ...
Mar. 7, 2022 A new model to analyse infectious disease outbreak data has been developed by mathematicians that could be used to improve disease tracking and ...
Dec. 13, 2021 Combining two agents to block a parasitic worm's life cycle boosted survival from a potentially deadly tropical disease to 85% in animal models, far better than either treatment alone, according ...
Sep. 5, 2023 New research shows that being infected with multiple strains of the Chagas-inducing parasite may hinder the disease's ...
Aug. 16, 2023 Over recent decades, there was a large variation in cyclone-related excess deaths by hurricane, state, county, year, and social vulnerability for counties in the United States, with 83 percent of ...
May 6, 2021 Researchers made a surprising finding while examining areas where sand flies rear their young: a new species of bacteria that is highly attractive to pregnant sand flies. The findings could advance ...
July 4, 2023 Global efforts to reduce infectious disease rates must have a greater focus on older children and adolescents after a shift in disease burden onto this demographic, according to a new ...
Mar. 16, 2023 Using a new computational approach they developed to analyze large genetic datasets from rare disease cohorts, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and colleagues have ...
Feb. 17, 2022 A study has identified a gene, KCNJ15, that is associated with helping our immune system fight tuberculosis (TB), and potentially other infectious ...