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UNC-Chapel Hill scientists investigated blood samples from children enrolled in a dengue vaccine trial to identify the specific kinds of antibody responses that

Scientists Discover How Dengue Vaccine Fails to Protect Against Disease June 23, 2021 UNC School of Medicine scientists led by Aravinda de Silva, PhD, identified the small subpopulation of antibodies in vaccinated children that correlate with protection against dengue fever. This research should help shape better vaccines for one of the most widespread infectious diseases in the world. Aravinda de Silva, PhD CHAPEL HILL, NC – Developing a viable vaccine against dengue virus has proved difficu...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Image shows cells with oil droplet-like NORAD-Pumilio bodies in red and nucleus in blue. Credit: Mahmoud Elguindy view more  Credit: Mahmoud Elguindy DALLAS - June 9, 2021 - A phenomenon in which an RNA named NORAD drives a protein named Pumilio to form liquid droplets in cells, much like oil in water, appears to tightly regulate the activity of Pumilio. A new study led by UT Southwestern scientists suggests that such RNA-driven "phase separation," in turn, protects aga...

Research brief: The study is based on near-real-time data from U.S. emergency medical service calls.

UCLA: Overdose Deaths Up 42% In 2020; Largest Increases Among Black And Latino Communities - La Cañada Flintridge, CA - Based on cases handled by emergency medical services, the number of people in the U.S. who died due to drug overdoses was 42% higher in ...

Focus Daily News 2021 Texas Medical Association Medical Student Section (TMA-MSS) Student of the Year Award Whitney Stuard, a sixth-year MD/PhD student in the Medical Scientist Training Program at UT Southwestern Medical School (UT Southwestern), received the 2021 Texas Medical Association Medical Student Section (TMA-MSS) Student of the Year Award. TMA’s House of Delegates policymaking body announced Ms. Stuard’s award today during TexMed, TMA’s annual conference, held virtually. “The ...

IMAGE: Jessica Hallman Silverman, who joined the College of Information Sciences and Technology last year as an assistant professor with a focus in biomedical statistics, made global headlines last summer for his study suggesting that 80% of U.S. COVID-19 cases went undetected in March 2020. He and his research team analyzed data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the number of patients who sought medical care for influenza-like illnesses during that time span. That nu...

Previously, Wende’s group assisted in a study that identified links between DNA methylation in all cause heart failure associated with the ability to use different metabolic fuels to maintain contractility, namely a decrease in oxidative metabolism.[2] An additional study from the group found molecular mechanisms specific to ischemic heart failure, which identified a key epigenetic regulator (i.e. EZH2) as likely having an active role in gene expression regulation involved in both metabolic a...

Study sheds light on how tau aggregates promote Alzheimer’s disease Look deep inside the brain of someone with Alzheimers disease, most forms of dementia or the concussion-related syndrome known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and youll find a common suspected culprit: stringy, hairball-like tangles of a protein called tau. Such conditions, collectively known as "tauopathies" strike scores of people across the globe, with Alzheimers alone affecting six million people in the United S...

 E-Mail Look deep inside the brain of someone with Alzheimers disease, most forms of dementia or the concussion-related syndrome known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and youll find a common suspected culprit: stringy, hairball-like tangles of a protein called tau. Such conditions, collectively known as "tauopathies" strike scores of people across the globe, with Alzheimers alone affecting six million people in the United States. But more than a century after German psychiatrist Alo...