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Award-winning project uses INTEGRA pipettes for success in international genetic engineering competition

Students from the University of Groningen, Netherlands, enjoyed gold medal success at last year’s iGEM competition.

From INTEGRA Biosciences 13 Apr 2023

Thousands of unique arboviruses and flaviviruses identified from samples collected between 1954-2018

A recent article identifies the encephalitogenic viruses registered in Brazil over the past six decades.

12 Apr 2023

Pediatric invasive group A Streptococcal infections on the rise during respiratory virus outbreak

Researchers assess the incidence of invasive Group A streptococcal infections among children before and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

12 Apr 2023

Researchers use a quick, portable process to produce promising virus-fighting protein

A multidisciplinary research team has produced a promising virus-fighting protein using a quick, portable process that could be easily deployed at the source of a future virus outbreak.

12 Apr 2023

The identification of vaccinee-derived antibodies with broad-spectrum Omicron neutralization activity

Reported the identification of a panel of vaccinee-derived antibodies with broad-spectrum neutralization activity.

12 Apr 2023

New organoid platform could make vaccine screening quicker and greatly reduce animal testing

Developing and testing new treatments or vaccines for humans almost always requires animal trials, but these experiments can sometimes take years to complete and can raise ethical concerns about the animals' treatment.

12 Apr 2023

Understanding the dynamics of airborne transmission in enclosed spaces: implications for disease control in indoor superspreading events

Researchers investigated the dynamics of airborne diseases in enclosed spaces.

12 Apr 2023

New insights into how Omicron variants avoid destruction by "killer" T cells

Omicron subvariants of SARS-CoV-2 -; the virus behind COVID-19 -; have shown an uncanny knack for evading antibodies produced either by vaccines or exposure to earlier versions of the virus, leading to many breakthrough infections.

11 Apr 2023

A creative new approach to make vaccine against norovirus

Every year, norovirus causes hundreds of millions of cases of food poisoning -; and the deaths of at least 50,000 children -; yet there exists no real way to control it.

11 Apr 2023

VUMC-led trial demonstrates the inefficacy of two investigational drugs for treating severe COVID-19

Despite the success of vaccines for preventing COVID-19, and of drugs for treating the disease, outcomes for severely ill patients admitted to the hospital remains poor.

11 Apr 2023

Daily statin medication could improve cardiovascular outcomes in people with HIV

A National Institutes of Health clinical trial was stopped early because a daily statin medication was found to reduce the increased risk of cardiovascular disease among people living with HIV in the first large-scale clinical study to test a primary cardiovascular prevention strategy in this population.

11 Apr 2023

Study expands the knowledge about gut viral diversity in healthy infants

Viruses are usually associated with illness. But our bodies are full of both bacteria and viruses that constantly proliferate and interact with each other in our gastrointestinal tract.

11 Apr 2023

SARS-CoV-2 may exploit multiple receptors and pathways across various tissues, age groups

A study led by Mount Sinai researchers Dr. Bin Zhang, the Willard T.C. Johnson Research Professor of Neurogenetics, and Dr. Christian Forst, an Associate Professor in the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, have identified potential novel receptors for SARS-CoV-2 and unveiled their tissue-specific and age-dependent expression.

11 Apr 2023

Scientists isolate two antibodies that neutralize all current SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern

Researchers found antibodies that neutralize all current SARS-CoV-2 variants.

11 Apr 2023

The emergence of tanapox in South Africa, 2022

Study describes a human case of tanapox in South Africa.

10 Apr 2023

Urban light pollution may disrupt winter dormancy period for disease-carrying mosquitoes

A new study's finding that urban light pollution may disrupt the winter dormancy period for mosquitoes that transmit West Nile virus could be considered both good news and bad news.

10 Apr 2023

BU researcher receives $1.5 million NIH grant to purchase state-of-the-art cryo-EM

Esther Bullitt, PhD, associate professor of pharmacology, physiology & biophysics at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, was awarded $1.5 million from the National Institutes of Health that will go toward the purchase of a cryogenic electron microscope.

10 Apr 2023

Virus News and Research

Latest Virus News and Research

Award-winning project uses INTEGRA pipettes for success in international genetic engineering competition

Thousands of unique arboviruses and flaviviruses identified from samples collected between 1954-2018

Pediatric invasive group A Streptococcal infections on the rise during respiratory virus outbreak

Researchers use a quick, portable process to produce promising virus-fighting protein

The identification of vaccinee-derived antibodies with broad-spectrum Omicron neutralization activity

New organoid platform could make vaccine screening quicker and greatly reduce animal testing

Understanding the dynamics of airborne transmission in enclosed spaces: implications for disease control in indoor superspreading events

New insights into how Omicron variants avoid destruction by "killer" T cells

A creative new approach to make vaccine against norovirus

VUMC-led trial demonstrates the inefficacy of two investigational drugs for treating severe COVID-19

Daily statin medication could improve cardiovascular outcomes in people with HIV

Study expands the knowledge about gut viral diversity in healthy infants

SARS-CoV-2 may exploit multiple receptors and pathways across various tissues, age groups

Scientists isolate two antibodies that neutralize all current SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern

The emergence of tanapox in South Africa, 2022

Urban light pollution may disrupt winter dormancy period for disease-carrying mosquitoes

BU researcher receives $1.5 million NIH grant to purchase state-of-the-art cryo-EM

Male circumcision may protect against HPV infection in males and females

HIV diagnoses increases more than three-fold after implementing targeted testing in EDs

The distribution and prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in the Huanan seafood market

A new way of characterising biomolecules eBook

Clue's CEO Rhiannon White on the Future of Femtech and PCOS

Freezing Point Osmometry in Life Science Applications

Precision in every drop: Inside Hamilton’s syringe technology

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