HIV-infected people who are treated long-term with antiviral drugs may have no detectable virus in their body, but scientists know there are pools of the virus hiding there, awaiting the chance to eme ...
Usually, we think of vaccines as preventative, a shot we get to prevent the flu or some childhood disease like measles or mumps. But there are vaccines for other purposes, such as the ones studied by ...
Viral infections have been the focus of attention in the development of autoimmune diseases—diseases where the body's immune system reacts to the body's own cells—because they trigger the immune syste ...
Two viral liver diseases could help us find the path toward the cause of Parkinson's disease.Researchers from the University of Oxford and UCL Institute of Neurology in London have reported an associa ...
When the mosquito that carries the malaria parasite (Plasmodium falciparum) bites someone, the parasite must travel to the liver where it undergoes part of its lifecycle before infecting red blood cel ...
The search for a cancer treatment that selectively finds and kills only the cancerous cells has just made a giant leap forward.A new study published in Nature Communications, by a group of researchers ...
Tremendous strides have been made in the treatment and outlook for patients infected with HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus. Treatment with a combination of antiretroviral drugs can keep patients ...
We can add one more health effect of our gut bacteria to the growing list.Researchers from the UK have just reported that the gut microbiota plays a role, both directly and indirectly, on the toxicity ...
Somewhere around 600–800 million people in the world are infected with whipworm (Trichuris trichiura), an infection they got from ingesting soil or water contaminated with feces of infected animals or ...
By looking for the mechanism that allows influenza A to invade lung cells, scientists also discovered a treatment that might block the virus from taking hold there.An infection of the lungs is called ...