A drug normally used to prevent tissue rejection following organ transplants could be repurposed to help treat human metapneumovirus (HMPV) infection in children.
Griffith University’s bid to fight the childhood killer pneumonia has received a significant boost following the award of a $304,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Advancing the fight against pneumonia is the focus of a new online scholarly journal launched by Griffith University ePress.
Griffith University will use a $2.95 million NHMRC grant to take a unique focus on targeting sugar interactions to prevent...
Griffith pays tribute to distinguished leader in immunology, academia and research.
Griffith University researchers have demonstrated that a bacteria can travel through the olfactory nerve in the nose and into the brain in mice, where it creates markers that are a tell-tale sign of Alzheimer’s disease.
Picking your nose and plucking the hairs from your nose are not good ideas, particularly if you don’t want to get diseases like Alzheimer’s . A growing body of evidence shows that damaging the lining of your nose gives bacteria and viruses a clear pathway to the brain, where they create some of the pathologies of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
A bacterium commonly present in the nose can sneak into the brain and may increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.
Institute for Glycomics researchers awarded $1.1 million from NHMRC to develop new antibiotics for drug resistant gonorrhoea.
A class of metal-based compounds acts as a shield to protect cells from viruses new research has found.
