2017

14th June, 2017Male circumcision has often been associated with social and religious values; however, recent research has indicated that circumcised males have a lower risk of contracting HIV...

12th June, 2017Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infects approximately 20 million people annually and there is no approved diagnostic or treatment for this virus. Therefore, there is a need to understand the pathogenesis of the disease...

9th June, 2017 Marijuana is widely used to help alleviate the symptoms of a variety of diseases and the side effects of their treatments. With the recent legalization and decriminalization of marijuana...

7th June, 2017The immune system of infants begins developing well before birth to provide protect at the maternal-fetal interface and prevent infections.

5th June 2017 One of the challenges with eliciting broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) which target HIV is that they have unusual characteristics...

2nd June, 2017Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, or PrEP, is an HIV prevention method for people who are not infected with HIV but are at a high risk of contraction.

A recent review evaluated current findings on multigenerational studies of allergy and asthma, where atypical immunological traits may be passed down generations through epigenetics. Multigenerational cohorts where subjects are observed starting from pregnancy...

Commensal microbiota found in humans has been found to impact various autoimmune diseases by a link to T cell development. The mechanisms behind this were not well understood. Researchers at the University of Utah School of Medicine, have now...

While many people believe that peanut allergies are confined to Western countries, this growing problem has actually spread to Africa and Asia. The prevalence of peanut allergies in North America...

Citrobacter rodentium-induced inflammation is a commonly used animal model for enterohemorragic Escherichia coli (EHEC) infection. It is known that C. rodentium infection is an...