Inoculation stimulates activity in key immune cells, offering insights into mechanisms linked to infection resistance.

New PhD opportunity to explore the role of infectious agents in chronic disease. 4 fully-funded PhD places are available for UK/home fee students. Apply by 16 January 2026 for entry in October 2026.

PhD Project - EastBio: A host-directed approach to identify novel therapeutic targets of infectious reproductive diseases at Moredun Research Institute, listed on FindAPhD.com

World AMR Awareness Week 2025: Higlighting some of the work and activities across the network that are addressing antimicrobial resistance.

World AMR Awareness Week 2025: A study led by researchers from the School of Biological Sciences has suggested the discovery of a new mechanism of resistance to common antibiotics could pave the way f...

Trial findings will be disseminated in national and international conferences, in peer-reviewed journals and through social media.

ISRCTN17422256.

International Clinical Trial Registry Platform (https://trialsearch.who.int/): NL4882 and NL3821.

Macrophages are now recognised to be highly heterogeneous, with diverse ontogenies, anatomical locations and characteristics, all of which inform their function. Nerve-associated macrophage subpopulat...

FS500 increased sputum but not upper airway bacterial loads. ICS withdrawal was poorly tolerated in severe COPD.

Size polydispersity in colloidal particles can disrupt order in their self-assembly, ultimately leading to a complete suppression of crystallization. In contrast to various computational studies, few ...

This ESICM guideline provides three recommendations to inform clinicians on fluid removal during the de-escalation phase in critically ill patients with shock who no longer need fluid resuscitation.

Control of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome viruses (PRRSV) is sometimes hindered by the suboptimal immunogenicity and efficacy of existing vaccines. In addition, not following vaccine st...

Effects of parental age on juvenile survival are well documented, but whether parental age has long-term consequences for the fitness of surviving offspring remains poorly understood. This is particul...

Despite a huge expansion in the last decades, several assumptions have directed, and perhaps pigeonholed, the evolution of the extracellular RNA (exRNA) field. For example, extracellular vesicles (EVs...

October 2025: Researchers have shown that a solid dose vaccine is effective at protecting pigs against a virus and therefore is a practical alternative to conventional vaccine delivery.

September 2025: A recent study involving researchers from the Centre for Inflammation Research on the effectiveness of a maternal RSV vaccine has been cited in the House of Lords, the Sun Newspaper an...

September 2025: Dr Arun Prakash, a Darwin Trust PhD student, has been retrospectively awarded the prestigious award from the Royal Entomological Society for his 2021 thesis ''Immune Regulation Of Dise...

August 2025: A collection of publication highlights from Edinburgh Infectious Diseases over the past month.

Research on chemokines in cattle is hampered by the relative lack of validated reagents. Bovine IP-10 is an important inflammatory chemokine and a promising diagnostic biomarker for an economically im...

Feline cognitive dysfunction syndrome (CDS; a.k.a. feline dementia) is an age-related neurodegenerative disorder, comparable to dementia in people, characterised by behavioural changes such as increas...

The Secretary of the US Department of Health & Human Services, Robert Kennedy Jr is leading a political agenda against vaccination. This is undermining the delivery of life-saving vaccination programm...

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are small, membrane-bound particles released by cells into the extracellular environment. They play a pivotal role in cell communication and have recently gained prominenc...

Mast cells are long-lived, tissue-resident immune cells of the myeloid lineage with cardinal functions in allergy and atopic disease. They are now increasingly recognized also for protective roles, fo...