On 28 January Nature Medicine again paid attention to the earlier published article (on January 21st) of BPRC, in their 'News & Views' section. We tell more about this article here.
Flu vaccines often lag behind current developments. By the time an effective flu vaccine is available for a specific virus, a new flu virus which is not susceptible to the vaccine will already be in circulation. The problem is that it takes at least 6 months to develop a vaccine, which means the flu will always be one step ahead. Couldn't things be speeded up a bit?
Nature Medicine publishes BPRC findings
Towards the end of last year, a crisis erupted in New Delhi when the capital was overrun by thousands of monkeys that allegedly ‘terrorised’ the city. They snatched mobile phones and food, chewed through fibre optic cables and broke into homes. One colony even managed to steal into a government building...
New drugs are vital for patients, although you might not realise this until a patient tells you that they are.
Mosquitoes in January, in the Netherlands, surely not? It may seem hard to believe but mosquitoes are causing a nuisance in various parts of the Netherlands. And we’d better watch out – West Nile virus may be closer than we think.
The most commonly-occurring strain of malaria, vivax malaria, is difficult to combat because the parasite forms dormant stages known as 'hypnozoites', which embed themselves in the host's liver. They can remain there, unnoticed, for weeks or even years – until suddenly, for unknown reasons, they resume their growth and cause an outbreak of malaria.
So far, no adequate therapy exists to treat this form. Recently, however, we have learned more about the genetic properties of these dormant stages – information that is extremely valuable to pharmaceutical research.
It recently came to light that the number of monkeys used in the United States in biomedical research in 2017 was 22% higher than in 2015.
Science has unlocked another clue to the workings of the human immune system. An article just published in leading science journal Nature presents new information about this vital bodily defence system – information that will be instrumental in the search for new therapies like those developed by BPRC.
'There is a real chance that tuberculosis will become untreatable in the near future.' It was with these ominous words that TV science programme Focus, aired by public broadcaster NTR on NPO2 on 24 October (watch it here (Dutch)), sounded the alarm about the problem of the world's deadliest bug.
