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In the quest to unravel the complexities of infectious diseases, understanding the intricate interplay between pathogens and their hosts is paramount. ...
In recent years, mRNA vaccines have emerged as a revolutionary tool in the fight against infectious diseases, including the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. These vaccines utilize messenger RNA (mRNA) to instruct cells to produce a protein that triggers an immune response, leading to the production of antibodies that protect against the targeted virus. ...
While the diversity of CPSs is well understood, exactly what makes CPSs such deadly weapons for bacteria is unclear. Many disease-causing bacteria, such as S. pneumoniae, are enclosed in a layer of sugar called capsular polysaccharide (CPS). ...
PAI has access to a complete chemistry laboratory facility through a service agreement with the Infectious Disease Research Institute located in the same building. In addition to fume hoods, rotary evaporators, and glassware, we are able to use major equipment including a Bruker Avance 300 MHz NMR spectrometer, Agilent 1100 LCMS, preparative HPLC ...
Longlong Si's research group from the Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, published a research titled "Generation of a live attenuated influenza A vaccine by proteolysis targeting" in Nature Biotechnology. ...
The work was supported by funds of the LSU Division of Biotechnology & Molecular Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, by a Governor's Biotechnology Initiative grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents (to K.K.), and by Cores of the Center for Experimental Infectious Disease Research, and Louisiana Biomedical Research ...
As vaccine rollouts take place in many countries around the world, it feels like the globe will soon be able to take a collective sigh of relief that this pandemic could nearly be over. However, the reality may not be so simple. Leading scientists including the chair of the WHO’s strategic and technical advisory group for infectious hazards expect that SARS-CoV-2 will become endemic, ...
HealtySOLE has launched a new PLUS model of its shoe sanitizer meant for use in hospitals and other settings where infection control is urgent. Researchers have proven a device using ultraviolet light technology can neutralize the coronavirus and other infectious diseases on the soles of shoes by more than 99.5 percent, according to a new ...
“The current vaccines are surely better than nothing,” said Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy. “But we’ve got to get new vaccines that work much ...
Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Rocky Mountain Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1682, and School of Medical Science and Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University—Gold Coast Campus, Gold Coast, Queensland 9726, ...