Forget about public restrooms: It turns out your own bathroom is teeming with viruses. Researchers at Northwestern University studied two things that most people use everyday—their toothbrush ...

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Smoking does also raise the risk, but cervical cancer usually forms when HPV gets into healthy cells and hijacks their molecular machinery to produce even more virus particles – in the process ...

West Nile virus is spreading across the US and Europe. This deadly disease has been around for decades, but there is still no vaccine and no cure in humans. After a distinguished career as one of ...

Over 160,000 new viruses discovered by AI Largest discovery of new viruses sheds light on hidden virosphere Date: October 9, 2024 Source: University of Sydney Summary: 161,979 new RNA viruses have ...

This common virus can lead to a rare but serious polio-like complication known as acute flaccid myelitis. Symptoms of acute flaccid myelitis include limb weakness and paralysis.

There was a time when doctors didn't have a cure for the deadliest viruses, but now, with advancements in technology, treatments and vaccines are being developed much faster. This progress has the ...

Next-generation sequencing of tissues from 461 individual samples collected across 28 species revealed 125 vertebrate-associated virus species from 20 viral families, significantly higher than ...

Respiratory viruses typically enter our body within droplets that are exhaled by infected people, and inhaled through our nose. Those viruses proceed to reproduce while infecting the cells lining ...

The researchers also looked at how changes in diet impacted the bats' antibody responses to an influenza A-like virus and a pseudotyped Nipah virus. Surprisingly, bats fed a fruit-only diet had a ...

Moleculin Biotech, Inc., a clinical stage pharmaceutical company, focuses on the development of drug candidates for the treatment of cancers and viruses. Its lead drug candidate is Annamycin ...

Additionally, the Company is developing WP1066, an Immune/Transcription Modulator capable of inhibiting p-STAT3 and other oncogenic transcription ... treatment of viruses, as well as certain ...