MEDICINE & HEALTHBy studying what causes the excitability of nerve cells to change, we can begin to unravel how chronic pain becomes established. This also allows us to design ways to mute this conversation to blunt or stop chronic pain.
The COVID-19 is not yet done wreaking havoc to the world and yet experts said that new ones are coming that could originate from animals. They urge governments to invest heavily in preventive measures to avoid history from repeating itself.
Just as how unique a fingerprint is, a new study has found that all humans have unique viral compositions in their guts. But fret not, as most viral guts do not cause diseases.
Social connections are an essential part of humanity and animals alike. Lobsters, mandrills, and ants alter their behavior when faced with a viral outbreak.
A recent analysis says that the cost preventing a pandemic in the next decade will just be about 2 percent of the economic damage by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Scientists urged everyone to save the ecosystem and act now to prevent new viral outbreaks.
Scientists recreate human cell membranes onto an electronic chip to measure its behavior with external substances such as viruses and antibiotics. Soon, it will be screening drug candidates for coronavirus.
A reverse genetics system was used to create and study a mutant version of the highly contagious rotavirus. The initial steps of viral assembly gave valuable insight on what may trigger virus multiplication.
Scientists believe that a genetic analysis of the immune system's defense mechanism against hepatitis C can be used for coronavirus vaccine development.
Stanford Professor warns that samples from Mars should be treated as if tey are Ebola virus from space until proven safe to prevent alien virus from contaminating Earth.
Rare but possible, astronauts do get sick too, and they fall ill in space, as well. Indeed, as they float off-earth, these spacemen have suffered from upper respiratory infections or URI, or colds, skin infections and urinary tract infections or UTI,
Just weeks after recovering, a Japanese woman is tested positive yet again for COVID-19. (Photo : Reuters)A man wearing a protective face mask, following an outbreak of the coronavirus, walks past an advertising billboard of Tokyo Olympics 2020, near the Shinjuku station in Tokyo, Japan, February 27, 2020.
An illness that first started in Wuhan City, China since December 2019 has gone from bad to worse. People needs to be aware of the coronavirus symptoms so they can get immediate cure.
This is what we know so far on the effects of Covid-19 on your body. (Photo : China Daily via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS)A doctor disinfects a room for medical staff with sanitizing equipment at a community health service center, which has an isolated section to receive patients with mild symptoms caused by the novel coronavirus and suspected patients of the virus, in Qingshan district of Wuhan, Hubei province, China February 10, 2020.
The deadly Nipah virus is said to have no vaccine and no cure Nipah, a deadly virus that is carried by bats has already caused outbreaks across South East Asia and South Asia and has serious epidemic potential, according to a global health and infectious disease specialist.