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(Queen's University Belfast) A Queen's University Belfast scientist, whose research is now used worldwide in blood analyzing equipment, has made another important discovery.Recently announced as the winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry's Sensors Award for 2008, Professor A. Prasanna de Silva, has created "intelligent" molecules....
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(Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) When virally infected cells in the brain called astrocytes come in contact with antiviral T cells of the immune system, they undergo a unique series of changes that dramatically reorganize their shape and function, according to researchers at the Board of Governors Gene Therapeutics Research Institute at ...
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(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) The majority of deaths during the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 were not caused by the influenza virus acting alone, report researchers from NIAID. Instead, most victims succumbed to bacterial pneumonia following influenza virus infection. The pneumonia was caused when bacteria that normally inhabit ...
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(Society for General Microbiology) A new test for West Nile virus in horses that could be modified for use with humans and wildlife may help track the spread of the disease, according to an article in the September issue of the Journal of Medical Microbiology....
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(Washington University School of Medicine) People have long prized silver as a precious metal. Now, silver-coated endotracheal tubes are giving critically ill patients another reason to value the lustrous metal. In a study published in the Aug. 20, 2008, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers at ...
