If any doubts still existed, several teams of researchers have reported the first direct experimental evidence that both Asian and Brazilian strains of Zika virus can cause microcephaly when they infect pregnant mice.
The degree of pre-existing adaptation between a person's immune system and the precise genetic characteristics of the HIV that person was infected with could predict how quickly disease would progress, researchers reported in the May 16, 2016, online issue of Nature Medicine.
In research spanning cell lines to humans, researchers have demonstrated that the hormone neurotensin is necessary for a high-fat diet to lead to obesity. Mark Evers, director of the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center, told BioWorld Today that neurotensin may be one of the links between obesity and an increased risk of cancer. The team reported its results in the May 12, 2016, issue of Nature.
Scientists have discovered a broadly neutralizing antibody to HIV that binds to its fusion peptide. The antibody, which goes by the prosaic name of VRC34.01, is the first known broadly neutralizing antibody targeting that particular region of the virus.
If any doubts still existed, several teams of researchers have reported the first direct experimental evidence that both Asian and Brazilian strains of Zika virus can cause microcephaly when they infect pregnant mice.
An experimental Zika diagnostic can rapidly and inexpensively detect Zika virus and determine its specific strain, opening up the possibility of much improved monitoring of the virus as it spreads through the Americas.
Scientists from the German Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology and the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine have discovered that T-cell dysregulation is an important facet of the immune system response to Ebola virus disease.
