How cholera virulence is activated: A long-sought structural explanation

Cholera remains a major global public health challenge, with an estimated 1.3 to 4 million cases and tens of thousands of ...
News-Medical.Net

Scientists reveal how cholera bacteria activate toxin genes in the human gut

Cholera remains a major global public health challenge, with an estimated 1.3 to 4 million cases and tens of thousands of ...
Harvard Medical School

Researchers Now Understand How a New Class of Antivirals Works

Members of a new class of antivirals are being tested in U.S. clinical trials, and one has gained approval in Japan, but how ...

This Viral RNA Structure Could Lead to a Universal Antiviral Drug

Researchers identify a shared RNA-protein interaction that could lead to broad-spectrum antiviral treatments for enteroviruses ...
Springfield News-Leader

From the Darkroom shows carols for stricken classmate before polio vaccine

Students at Sunshine Elementary School sang Christmas carols to their homebound classmate, Gwinn Hinkle, as he recovered from polio in 1952. During the first half of the 20th century, a series of ...
The Conversation

The world risks forgetting one of humanity’s greatest triumphs as polio nears global eradication − 70 years after Jonas Salk developed the vaccine in a Pittsburgh lab

Carl Kurlander has previously received grants from the Grable Foundation, the Pittsburgh Foundation, and the R.K. Mellon Foundation years ago for the making of the polio movie. He receives no ...