In a new retrospective cohort study, scientists at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston found that, through an uncertain mechanism,...
Four types of human coronaviruses (OC43, 229E, HKU1 and NL63) are highly seasonal and appear to transmit similarly to influenza A (H3N2) in the same population,...
In new laboratory experiments conducted by researchers from the University of Maryland, the University of Hong Kong and Harvard School of Public Health,...
As the 2019-nCoV coronavirus continues to cross international borders, the two key questions on public health officials’ minds are: How deadly is it?...
A new study led by Professor Akiko Iwasaki of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Professor Vishwa Deep Dixit from Yale School of Medicine shows that...
In a study of mice, an international team of scientists has discovered that signals from gut bacteria help to maintain a first line of defense in the lining...
The elderberry (Sambucus nigra) is a small, antioxidant-rich fruit common to Europe and North America that is still commonly consumed as a jam or wine....
A common food additive called tert-butylhydroquinone (E319) suppresses the immune response the body mounts when fighting the flu; it also reduces the effectiveness...
Dr. Bao-Zhong Wang of the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University and colleagues have developed an experimental nanoparticle vaccine...
According to a new preclinical study by researchers from the University of Lausanne and Monash University, a diet rich in fiber blunts harmful immune responses...
Low doses of far ultraviolet C light can inactivate airborne influenza and other viruses without harming human tissues, according to a study published...
According to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, it is alarmingly easy to spread the influenza virus by simply...
An international team of scientists from the United States and India has discovered that a component of the skin mucus secreted by a South Indian fungoid...
Vitamin D supplementation can help protect against acute respiratory infections including colds and flu, particularly among very deficient individuals,...
An international team of researchers from Australia, China and the United States has shown for the first time that RNA interference is active in the response...
Dr. Raj Kurupati and colleagues from the Wistar Institute, University of Pennsylvania, and Duke University Medical Center showed that an individual’s...
According to a team of scientists at the University of Rochester, a rare mutation in a flu-encoded protein, called Non-Structural protein 1 (NS1), renders...
A research team led by McMaster University scientist Matthew Miller has taken one step closer to developing an effective, ‘one-punch’ flu vaccine.
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