Influenza vaccines that better target the influenza surface protein called neuraminidase (NA) could offer broad protection against various influenza virus strains and lessen the severity of... Read more
Each year, scientists create an influenza (flu) vaccine that protects against a few specific influenza strains that researchers predict are going to be the most common during that year. Now,... Read more
A research team led by UC Berkeley engineers has developed a new smartphone microscope that uses video to automatically detect and quantify infection by parasitic worms in a drop of blood. T... Read more
Results from US Government-Sponsored Phase 1 Trial of VSV Vaccine Reported ?An early-stage clinical trial of an experimental Ebola vaccine conducted at the National Institutes of Health (NIH... Read more
NIH Scientists and Collaborators Report Positive Results in Monkeys One shot of an experimental vaccine made from two Ebola virus gene segments incorporated into a chimpanzee cold virus vect... Read more
A nasal brush test can rapidly and accurately diagnose Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), an incurable and ultimately fatal neurodegenerative disorder, according to a study by National Institu... Read more
The group consensus was that it was much more important to get this information to scientists The full details of recent experiments that made a deadly flu virus more contagious will... Read more
About 30 percent of Americans believe they have food allergies. However, the actual number is far smaller, closer to 5 percent, closer to 5 percent, according to a recent study commissioned... Read more