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Stealth-Care System: ‘Smart’ Red Blood Cells Deliver Antibiotics That Target Specific Bacteria

Physicists at McMaster University have identified a natural delivery system that can safely carry potent antibiotics throughout the body to selectively attack and kill bacteria by using red blood cells as a vehicle.

Black Death Shaped Evolution of Immunity Genes, Setting Course for How We Respond to Disease Today

An international team of scientists who analyzed centuries-old DNA from victims and survivors of the Black Death pandemic has identified key genetic differences that determined who lived and who died, and how those aspects of our immune systems have continued to evolve since that time.

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Old Drug, New Trick: Researchers Find Combining Antiviral Drugs and Antibody Therapy Could Treat Seasonal Flu and Help Prevent Next Flu Pandemic

Researchers at McMaster University have found a class of well-known antiviral drugs could be part of a one-two punch to treat seasonal influenza and prevent a flu pandemic when used in combination with antibody therapies.

Apples Treated with Fungicides Could Be Spreading a Drug-Resistant Pathogen, Researchers Find

Fungicides widely used to prevent apples from spoiling may be fueling the superbug crisis by acting as reservoir for drug-resistant strains of a deadly pathogen, warn researchers from McMaster University and the University of Delhi.

Researchers Confirm Newly Developed Inhaled Vaccine Delivers Broad Protection Against SARS-CoV-2, Variants of Concern

Scientists at McMaster University who have developed an inhaled form of COVID vaccine have confirmed it can provide broad, long-lasting protection against the original strain of SARS-CoV-2 and variants of concern.

Caught in the Act: Deadly Fungus Can Multiply by Having Sex, Researchers Find

Researchers at McMaster have unlocked an evolutionary mystery of a deadly pathogen responsible for fuelling the superbug crisis: It can reproduce by having sex.

Rare Yeast Pathogen Causes Neonatal Outbreaks and Is Evolving Quickly, Resistant to Cleaning Chemicals: Research

A stubborn and dangerous rare yeast pathogen known as Lodderomyces elongisporus is behind two outbreaks in a neonatal intensive care unit in Delhi, India.

Deadly Waves: Researchers Document Evolution of Plague Over Hundreds of Years in Medieval Denmark

Scientists who study the origins and evolution of the plague have examined hundreds of ancient human teeth from Denmark, seeking to address longstanding questions about its arrival, persistence and spread within Scandinavia.

Finding a New Way to Train the Brain: Orienteering

The sport of orienteering, which draws on athleticism, navigational skills and memory, could be useful as an intervention or preventive measure to fight cognitive decline related to dementia, according to new research from McMaster University.

Plague Trackers: Researchers Cover Thousands of Years to Understand the Elusive Origins of the Black Death

Seeking to better understand more about the origins and movement of bubonic plague in ancient and contemporary times, researchers at McMaster University, the University of Sydney and the University of Melbourne have completed a painstaking granular examination of hundreds of modern and ancient genome sequences, creating the largest analysis of its kind.

Researchers Discover Gut Mechanism That Triggers Innate Immunity Against Respiratory Infections

Scientists studying how a common tuberculosis vaccine works have discovered that it induces a previously unknown mechanism in the gut that triggers a systemic immune alert, which then causes changes in the innate immune system in the lung to fend off not just tuberculosis, but a broad range of respiratory pathogens

Black Death Shaped Evolution of Immunity Genes, Setting Course for How We Respond to Disease Today

An international team of scientists who analyzed centuries-old DNA from victims and survivors of the Black Death pandemic has identified key genetic differences that determined who lived and who died, and how those aspects of our immune systems have continued to evolve since that time.