tells us that electron micrographs (pictures taken with a very powerful microscope) reveal voids (holes) in the condom that are up to 50 times bigger than the HIV particle. The analogy would be ...

The Sudan virus, a close relative of Ebola, has a fatality rate of 50% but remains poorly understood in terms of how it infects cells. Currently, no approved treatments exist. To address this critical ...

Transmission electron microscopy generates an image of the internal structure of a thin sample. Scanning electron microscopy generates a topological image of a sample. Animal toxins can modulate ...

HPV is responsible for more than 95% of cervical cancer cases in South Africa. If a high-risk HPV infection persists, it can ...

Updated recommendations were issued by the IAS-USA regarding the use of ART for treatment and prevention of HIV in adult populations.

Federal health officials say a dairy worker in Nevada has been infected with a new type of bird flu that’s different from the ...

Updated Hep B Vaccine More Effective for People With HIV Dec. 10, 2024 — A newer vaccine against hepatitis B virus was clearly superior to an older vaccine type in inducing a protective antibody ...

The management of Leishmania donova ni (LD), responsible for fatal visceral leishmaniasis (VL), faces increasing challenges due to rising drug-unresponsiveness, leading to increasing treatment ...

A sophisticated molecular machine, the spliceosome, ensures the accurate assembly of genetic information from the genome into mature mRNA after it has been transcribed into mRNA precursors.

Physicians and their patients report that engagement in an HIV-based community rivals drug effectiveness in the ongoing efforts to curtail an epidemic. Confronting the HIV Epidemic: There's an App ...

Light microscopy images were used because they are much easier and faster to obtain than electron microscopy images and suitable for analyzing large numbers of living bacterial cells. Moreover, we ...

Scanning electron microscope images of trona found in samples of the asteroid Bennu returned by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. Credit: Rob Wardell, Tim Gooding and Tim McCoy, Smithsonian. At Searles Lake, ...