Archive: 14/07/2016

Over 20 countries environmentally suitable for Ebola transmission by bats

Though the West African Ebola outbreak that began in 2013 is now under control, 23 countries remain environmentally suitable for animal-to-human transmission of the Ebola virus. Only seven of these countries have experienced ...

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Optical Coherence Tomography technology helps stop blindness

The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology today published a special anniversary edition in their journal Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science with more than 70 articles to commemorate the 25th anniversary ...

Jul 14, 2016

Long noncoding RNA found to quell inflammation

A long non-coding RNA (lincRNA) - called lincRNA-EPS - responsible for regulating innate immunity has been identified by a team of scientists at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Abundantly found in macrophages, ...

Jul 14, 2016

Research points towards new blindness prevention methods in diabetic eye disease

By combining data on optometry patient's eyes with advanced computational methods, Indiana University researchers have created a virtual tissue model of diabetes in the eye.

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Specialized neurons in emotional memory brain area play important role in fear

Fear memory encoding, the process responsible for persistent reactions to trauma-associated cues, is influenced by a sparse but potent population of inhibitory cells called parvalbumin-interneurons (PV-INs) in the amygdala, ...

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Congress OKs bill requiring first GMO food labels (Update)

Consumers wanting to know if their foods contain genetically modified ingredients will be able to find out for the first time.

Jul 14, 2016

A dengue virus protein alters the blood vessel surface and makes it leaky

The major symptom of severe dengue disease is leakage of blood plasma out of small blood vessels, which can lead to shock and death. A study published on July 14th in PLOS Pathogens suggests that the dengue virus (DENV) protein ...

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HIV 'safe houses' identified

Researchers from the University of Montreal Hospital Research Center (CRCHUM) have identified cells that provide "safe houses" for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) during antiretroviral therapy (ART).

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Zika epidemic likely to end within three years, research suggests

The current Zika epidemic in Latin America is likely to burn itself out within three years, suggests new research.

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Checkpoint in B cell development discovered with possible implications on vaccine potency

In a paper published in the July 14 inaugural issue of the journal Science Immunology, University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers report a new quality-control checkpoint function in developing B cells, cells that produce ...

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Archive: 14/07/2016

Over 20 countries environmentally suitable for Ebola transmission by bats

Optical Coherence Tomography technology helps stop blindness

Long noncoding RNA found to quell inflammation

Research points towards new blindness prevention methods in diabetic eye disease

Specialized neurons in emotional memory brain area play important role in fear

Congress OKs bill requiring first GMO food labels (Update)

A dengue virus protein alters the blood vessel surface and makes it leaky

HIV 'safe houses' identified

Zika epidemic likely to end within three years, research suggests

Checkpoint in B cell development discovered with possible implications on vaccine potency

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