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Spiny Worm Inspires Next-Gen Band-Aid
Caption: Artist rendition of spiny headed worm │The adhesive patch with microneedles that swellSource: The Karp Lab, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Inspiration can come from some pretty strange sources....
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Snapshots of Life: NIH’s BioArt Winners
Credit: FASEB If you follow my blog, you know that I like to feature spectacular images that scientists have created during the course of their research. These images are rarely viewed outside the lab,...
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Enlisting mHealth in the Fight Against River Blindness
When it comes to devising new ways to provide state-of-the art medical care to people living in remote areas of the world, smartphones truly are helping scientists get smarter. For example, an...
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Gene Drive Research Takes Aim at Malaria
Malaria has afflicted humans for millennia. Even today, the mosquito-borne, parasitic disease claims more than a half-million lives annually [1]. Now, in a study that has raised both hope and concern,...
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Mouse Study Finds Microbe Might Protect against Food Poisoning
Caption: Scanning electron microscopy image of T. mu in the mouse colon.Credit: Aleksey Chudnovskiy and Miriam Merad, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Recently, we humans have started to pay a...
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Creative Minds: Interrogating a Master of Disguise
Monica Mugnier When I volunteered several years ago as a physician in a small hospital in West Africa, one of the most frustrating and frightening diseases I saw was sleeping sickness. Now, an...
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Rare Disease Mystery: Nodding Syndrome May Be Linked to Parasitic Worm
Caption: Village in the East Africa nation of UgandaCredit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention In the early 1960s, reports began to surface that some children living in remote villages in East...
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Fighting Parasitic Infections: Promise in Cyclic Peptides
Caption: Cyclic peptide (middle) binds to iPGM (blue). Credit: National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, NIH When you think of the causes of infectious diseases, what first comes to mind...
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Tagging Essential Malaria Genes to Advance Drug Development
Caption: Colorized scanning electron micrograph of a blood cell infected with malaria parasites (blue with dots) surrounded by uninfected cells (red). Credit: National Institute of Allergy and...
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