Engineering immune cells to attack cancer is a form of treatment that is showing great promise, but it is complex because it involves extracting and modifying T cells before injecting them back into the body. Scientists...
An international team of researchers has shed light on the potential impact of new drugs for hepatitis C virus (HCV). HCV is an important cause of liver cancer and is transmitted through blood to blood contact. People...
NIH-funded scientists detail tissue destruction caused by Zika virus during pregnancy. Zika virus infects and crosses the placentas of pregnant mice and causes severe damage or death in fetal mice, report scientists...
The global economic burden of norovirus is a staggering $60 billion per year, with an annual death toll of 200,000, according to new estimates from a collection of studies on the disease and its impact. The reports...
Specialized proteins can protect monkeys against the virus for months. The finding provides further evidence that antibodies — specialized proteins that the body produces to fight infections — could one day be used as a...
New research from the University of Birmingham has shown that flu vaccinations are more effective when administered in the morning. The findings, published in the journal Vaccine, suggest administering vaccinations in...
While the world is as close as it has ever been to having a malaria vaccine, the fight to eradicate the disease is far from over. That was the consensus among experts in the field who gathered at a forum hosted by...
The virus that causes Zika fever can be transmitted through sexual contact long after initial infection as it survives for weeks in semen, according to research undertaken in Brazil. A paper published this month in...
Public health workers and scientists are on the brink of eradicating polio, a disease that causes incurable paralysis. But total eradication calls for a massive logistical operation “unprecedented” in the history of...
The next generation of vaccines may soon be on the horizon because Danish researchers have discovered a completely new and simple method which sets new standards for the development of vaccines. “The major...