News

Current News comprises short summaries of recent findings that address important or controversial areas of infection research.

10 May 2010 Deutsches Aerzteblatt International

Sponsoring can bias the results of drug studies

Drug studies financed by pharmaceutical companies frequently show positive results in favour of the sponsor. In the current issue...

07 May 2010 New York University/ Current Biology

Bacterial spores, the most resistant organisms on earth, carry an extra coating of protection previously undetected, a team of...

06 May 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Nature

When people become infected by HIV, it's usually only a matter of time, barring drug intervention, until they develop full-blown...

05 May 2010 PLoS Medicine

The majority of epidemiological articles on SARS were submitted to scientific journals after the epidemic had ended. Only 7%...

03 May 2010 Society for General Microbiology/Microbiology

A bacterial pathogen can communicate with yeast to block the development of drug-resistant yeast infections, say Irish scientists...

29 April 2010 PLOS Neglected Tropical Disease

For a tiny fraction of the cost of maintaining a nuclear arsenal, the 11 nuclear power states (United States, Russia, United...

27 April 2010 Ohio State University/ Nature Chemical Biology

Scientists have combined chemistry and biology research techniques to explain how certain bacteria grow structures on their...

26 April 2010 LMU München/ Cell Host and Microbe

Viruses can hide from the immune system by using small RNAs to silence the expression of cellular genes. Scientists of...

23 April 2010 Duke University Medical Center/ PloS Pathogens

A newly discovered strain of an airborne fungus has caused several deaths in Oregon and seems poised to move into California and...

21 April 2010 Cell Press/ Biophysical Journal

New research identifies a molecular mechanism that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) appears to utilize for generating...