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Image Credit: NIAID There is a long-held belief that acute viral infections are directly responsible for neurological damage, however, researchers from McMaster University have discovered that it is the immune system’s responses that are behind the damage, and they have published their research in Nature Communications. “We were interested in trying to understand why so …
“Air cleaners” or air filtration systems are designed to catch or filter pollutants and contaminants out of the air that passes through them, but according to recent research from the University of East Anglia submitted to the preprint server medRXiv, these systems do not reduce the risk of catching viral infections. This study investigating air …
This article, the following interview, and the accompanying video were sent to us by Fintan Dunne who is an independent journalist and broadcaster of the Beautiful Truth Net Radio Show at FintanDunne.com. Finally, A “Kryptonite” To Vanquish Viruses Rick Kiessig is the CEO, co-founder, and chief science officer at Kimer Med in Nelson, New Zealand; …
According to a study on herpes infections of the eye from the University of Illinois Chicago published in Science Advances, researchers are another step closer to stopping herpes infections as a new protein has been discovered that is important in viral infections, opening new paths to antivirals that could decrease the chances of reinfection. Heparanase …
Article courtesy of Dr. Joel Kahn, MD, who is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine, one of the world’s top cardiologists, best-selling author, lecturer, and a leading expert in plant-based nutrition and holistic care. For conditions like acute and chronic sinusitis, common cold, and allergic rhinitis, nasal irrigation can …
Proteins produced by oral epithelial cells protect humans against viruses entering the body through the mouth. Researchers from the UofL School of Dentistry and their colleagues have discovered details of this process and also found that oral bacteria can suppress the activity of these cells, increasing a person’s vulnerability to infection. A family of proteins …
Ragon Member Xu Yu, MD, studies how HIV stores copies of its genome in human cells, resulting in life-long infection. In 2020, she identified an untreated HIV patient with no intact copies of HIV genomes in more than 1.5 billion blood cells analyzed, suggesting the virus had been cleared from the patient’s body. Her team …
Thorough hand washing and sanitising are now second nature thanks to COVID-19, but a new study has also highlighted the dangers of open toilet lids, uncovered rubbish bins and defective plumbing drains in spreading infections in public washrooms. A global review of the risks of bacterial and viral transmission in public bathrooms has found that …
IMAGE: Esophageal cancers resurrect bits of ancient retroviruses, called endogenous retroviral elements (ERVs), embedded in our genome. Green dots mark expression of ERVs. Red dots mark a protein called ADAR1 that the cancer uses to degrade the ERVs. Image Credit: Adam Bass. Scientists have discovered that many esophageal cancers turn on ancient viral DNA that …
We have a for-profit medical system. The positive aspect of our system is that because it is so profitable, it encourages the development of new, patentable, high-tech, often life-saving treatments. The negative side is that it has little to no interest in treatments that are natural because by definition, natural treatments are not patentable. And …