Tag: infectious diseases

Researchers have identified a mechanism that may keep a well known signaling molecule from eroding bone and inflaming joints, according to an early study published online today in the Journal of ...

A research team at the University of Rochester Medical Center has received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to develop a new way to deliver proteins into human tissues, with a first ...

New research sheds light onto which eczema patients might be most at risk for complications from a smallpox vaccine.

Researchers have successfully tested for the first time a computer simulation of major portions of the body’s immune reaction to influenza type A, with implications for treatment design and ...

The University of Rochester Medical Center is one of only nine institutions nationwide to receive a new wave of National Institutes of Health dollars designed to help unravel – and design treatments ...

Current strategies for designing vaccines against HIV and cancers, for instance, may enable some components in multi-component vaccines to cancel the effect of others on the immune system, ...

The role of bacteria in the development of colorectal cancer is coming under scrutiny at the University of Rochester Medical Center, thanks to an $840,000 research award from the American Cancer ...

By studying how mice fight off infection by intestinal worms – a condition that affects more than 2 billion people worldwide – scientists have discovered that the immune system is more versatile than ...

Researchers have found a way to block the ability of white blood cells to sprint toward the sites of infection when such speed worsens the damage done by sepsis, the often fatal, whole-body bacterial ...

As vaccines against a virus that infects 100 million people annually reach late-stage clinical trials this year, researchers have developed a test to better predict whether a given vaccine candidate ...