March 2, 2016
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03/03/2016
Featured Research
Marta I. Sánchez and colleagues show that parasites do not always weaken their hosts' resilience to environmental stress. In this study, tapeworm infection is shown to enhance the shrimps' ability to cope with arsenic contamination in the water.
Image credit: Sánchez MI, Pons I, Martínez-Haro M, et al. (2016)
Current Issue February 2016
03/03/2016
pearls
In this Pearls article, Adam Sateriale and Boris Striepen discuss the enormous impact that cryptosporidiosis has on public health, and call for the development of therapeutic and preventive interventions.
Image credit: Sateriale A, Striepen B (2016)
03/03/2016
Research Article
The authors recently identified a highly potent antibody, termed D5, against Enterovirus 71 (EV71), a virus responsible for hand, foot and mouth disease. Here, Zhong Huang, Yao Cong, and colleagues investigate the structural basis for recognition of EV71 by the antibody.
Image credit: Ye X, Fan C, Ku Z, Zuo T, Kong L, Zhang C, et al. (2016)
02/29/2016
Research Article
Andrew P. Makrigiannis and colleagues suggest that NK cells, previously characterized as being hyporesponsive, actually possess potent antiviral activity which is crucial for protection from influenza and possibly other viral infections.
Image credit: Mahmoud AB, Tu MM, Wight A, Zein HS, Rahim MMA, Lee S-H, et al. (2016)
03/03/2016
Research Article
PLOS Pathogens Editor Michael R. Wessels and colleagues find that the introduction of NADase into GAS-infected cells increased the intracellular survival of S. pyogenes lacking NAD+-glycohydrolase or streptolysin O.
Image credit: Sharma O, O’Seaghdha M, Velarde JJ, Wessels MR (2016)
03/03/2016
Research Article
In this study, David E. Levy and colleagues find that PKR activation during viral infection was enhanced by MDA5, which highlights an unexpected role for MDA5 in stimulating the enzyme activity of PKR.
Image credit: Pham AM, Santa Maria FG, Lahiri T, Friedman E, Marié IJ, Levy DE (2016)
03/02/2016
Research Article
Image credit: Sun H, et al. (2016)
02/26/2016
Research Article
Image credit: Irigoyen N, et al. (2016)
03/03/2016
Research Article
Image credit: Callens N, et al. (2016)
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A blog post from Gaetan Burgio
In this blog post, Atif Kukaswadia discusses the iterative method that public health professionals use to act on issues we don't know much about.
A blog post from Sarah Borg at the WHO
Genomics of Rapid Incipient Speciation in Sympatric Threespine Stickleback by David A. Marques and colleagues
Health and Development in Infants after Mefloquine Antimalarial Treatment During Pregnancy by Clara Menéndez and colleagues
Assessment of Point-of-Care Diagnostics for G6PD Deficiency in Malaria Endemic Rural Eastern Indonesia by Ari W. Satyagraha and colleagues
An Attention-Sensitive Memory Trace in Macaque MT Following Saccadic Eye Movements by Tao Yao, Stefan Treue, and B. Suresh Krishna
A Sensory-Driven Trade-Off between Coordinated Motion in Social Prey and a Predator’s Visual Confusion by Bertrand H. Lemasson, Colby J. Tanner, Eric Dimperio
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