A comparison of 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine and its 13-valent counterpart suggests three primary doses with no booster yielded greater dividends for PCV7 than for PCV13, according to a recent study in...
The Ebola virus evolved to better infect human cells during the 2014 West African outbreak that killed more than 11,000, says a new study in the journal Cell. The Ebola virus mutated to more effectively infiltrate human...
Scientists have identified genetic markers associated with resistance to the one of the most commonly used malaria drugs in Southeast Asia. The findings of two independent studies from Cambodia, published in The Lancet...
Researchers have been trying for decades to develop a vaccine against the globally endemic hepatitis C virus (HCV). Now scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have discovered one reason why success has so...
India suffers from the highest number of dengue infections in the world, but there are few studies, if any, to understand the immune cells involved in fighting the virus. A recent study published in the Journal of...
Findings may influence vaccine and therapy development Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have discovered that Zika virus infection leads to modifications of both viral and human...
Researchers led by Carnegie Mellon University physicist Markus Deserno and University of Konstanz (Germany) chemist Christine Peter have developed a computer simulation that crushes viral capsids. By allowing...
A team of scientists led by Dr. Massimo Ciccozzi from the University Campus Bio-Medico in Rome, Italy, has modeled the evolutionary development and diversity of Zika virus to understand how infection spreads between...
In a study that could one day help eliminate the tragic birth defects caused by Zika virus, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have elucidated how the virus attacks the brains of...
“Fascinating.” “A complete first.” “Striking.” “Too amazing to be real.” Those are some of the reactions researchers are having to a provocative, baffling monkey study...