conservation, infectious disease, disease & medicine

Experts are scrambling to understand clusters of the normally rare disease that have been reported in Europe and North America in the last month.

While malaria control strategies have focused on mosquitoes’ nocturnal activity, almost one-third of bites occur while the sun is up, a new study estimates.

Known as SLiMs, these stretches of up to 10 amino acids play notable roles in cell biology, including responses to viral invasion.

Only recently appreciated as critical components of cellular functions, unstructured stretches of amino acids called SLiMs are key to viral-host interactions.

Inbreeding depression won’t bring the 10 remaining vaquitas to extinction.

Assumed to have gone extinct more than 30 years ago, Gasteranthus extinctus has been rediscovered by scientists working in Ecuador.

Several lines of evidence suggest that targeting the body’s defense pathways might help treat a subset of people with the psychiatric disorder. But many open questions remain.

Scientists have pinpointed several pathways through which the immune system could disrupt neuronal functioning and thereby lead to psychotic symptoms.

Southern Australia has recorded its first-ever cases of the disease in an outbreak that has so far killed three people.

His work was pivotal to understanding the mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases, particularly Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

And does it even matter?

Her achievements included developing a roadmap to tackle neglected tropical diseases.

Hultin’s work helped identify the virus behind the 1918 flu pandemic.