Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College in Beijing have found tuberculin skin testing may be overestimating the prevalence of latent tuberculosis in China. They suggest...
Drugs for HIV have become adept at suppressing infection, but they still can’t eliminate it. That’s because the medication in these pills doesn’t touch the virus’ hidden reserves, which lie...
According to new research from NC State, vaccines may become more effective than ever before at preventing disease. Since the summer of 2013, Cathy Fromen, a recent Ph.D. graduate from NC State, and her colleagues have...
“There is an urgent need in many parts of the world for a better rabies treatment,” said pathology professor Zhen Fu. A person bit by a rabid animal has only a finite amount of time to get treated with the...
Finding out whether you have been infected with dengue may soon be as easy as spitting into a rapid test kit. The Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) of A*STAR has developed a paper-based disposable...
Ebola researchers say they are a ‘tad disappointed’ at Ebola vaccine trials as scientists in Guinea warn the virus has mutated. Independent experts said that while the vaccine has been deemed safe, it did not perform as...
Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of California at San Francisco have revealed how a type of cancer-causing virus called Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) outwits the human body’s immune...
A new study has revealed that the evolutionary goal of Ebola virus is to become “more lethal.” Scientists at the University of Liverpool looked at the Zaire Ebola strain, which is responsible for the current...
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute announced that they’ve come up with a way to create a more effective nicotine vaccine, which could eventually help people trying to quit smoking from relapsing. In a...
The antibody response from an HIV vaccine trial in Thailand was made possible by a genetic trait carried over in humans from an ancient ancestry with monkeys and apes, according to a study led by Duke Medicine...