Tag: infectious diseases

The University of Rochester Medical Center will present a symposium on the global state of AIDS vaccine research Wednesday, Dec. 1, in its Class of ’62 Auditorium. Nelson Michael, M.D., Ph.D., ...

During the last two decades, scientists and doctors have developed a potent mix of medications that nearly stops HIV in its tracks for most patients. But an assault in the brain continues despite ...

Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center are forging ahead with an important first step in the National Children’s Study: Determining how to most accurately collect, preserve and ...

Starting this fall, University of Rochester researchers will recruit up to 90 local residents to help test a vaccine against norovirus, a common stomach bug long considered the bane of cruise ships, ...

Amyloid protein structures are best known for the troubles they pose in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. Now researchers are trying to exploit their presence in a very different place – in semen – ...

Jason Roberts and Christopher Foote recently joined the staff of the Medical Center's HIV vaccine research unit.

National health care efforts to curb the spread of the dangerous bacterial infection MRSA seem to be paying off, according to new research published in today's Journal of the American Medical ...

The University of Rochester Medical Center’s James P. Wilmot Cancer Center and Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) today announced that they are exploring a regional scientific collaboration. ...

As the medical community searches for better vaccines and ways to deliver them, a University of Rochester scientist believes he has discovered a new approach to boosting the body’s response to ...

Within the human digestive tract is a teeming mass of hundreds of types of bacteria, a potpourri of microbes numbering in the trillions that help us digest food and keep bad bacteria in check. ...