The evolutionary link between sickle-cell trait and malaria resistance ... While malaria is the best-understood example of an infectious disease that has driven human evolution, numerous other ...

fungi and protozoa in the blood down to the species level, thereby rapidly improving the diagnosis of infectious diseases. The discovery that cell-free DNA (cfDNA), short fragments of DNA released ...

Communicable diseases ... infectious. This means they can be transferred from one organism to another. An example of this is the common cold. Cancer happens when the cells in a person's body ...

Human skin, the barrier between the body and the ... of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID). Recent research has begun to document how skin commensals interact with one another, with pathogenic ...

The future may be getting brighter in terms of reducing the threat of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), infectious disease ... cells in the immune system and disrupts the body's ability ...

Scientists have long been trying to tease apart the hepatitis A virus, to understand its inner workings and how it functions in the human ... cellular machinery relevant not only to infectious ...

Cigarette smoking is widespread and deadly, yet our understanding of how cigarette smoke actually causes serious respiratory ...

The aged mice are what scientists consider to be the equivalent of a late middle-aged human ... to study the brain and the body at this kind of cell type-specific level. Otherwise, changes ...

Their findings, shown experimentally for the first time in human studies ... NUS' Emerging Infectious Diseases Program and lead author of the study said, "We found that T cells can serve as ...

Hopkins said that lenacapavir was expected to be reviewed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2025, with the potential to dramatically reduce HIV infection. "This will be a critical next step ...