Seeking COVID’s Kryptonite: Best UV Light for COVID-19 Virus Disinfection
NIST and DHS research collaboration reveals which wavelengths of UV light work best for COVID-19 virus disinfection. To disinfect a surface, you can illuminate it…
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Scientists Discover First Effective Drug Treatment Against Hepatitis A
Scientists Discover Key to Hepatitis A Virus Replication, Show Drug Effectiveness With no current treatments for hepatitis A, scientists at the University of North Carolina…
What Scientists Just Discovered About Monkeypox Virus on Surfaces
German scientists detected viral DNA in monkeypox patient’s rooms, but caution that surface contamination with virus DNA or viable virus does not prove that infection…
Some Viruses Can Make You More Attractive to Mosquitoes
Dengue and Zika viruses make infected hosts smell more delicious to mosquitoes. New research shows that when humans and mice are infected with dengue or…
New COVID Antibody Detection Method Does Not Require a Blood Sample
The global COVID-19 pandemic is not over, despite significant and stunning advances in vaccine technology. A key challenge in limiting the spread of severe acute…
Some Viruses Make You Smell Tastier to Mosquitoes – Increasing the Spread of Disease
Dengue and Zika viruses alter the microbiome in both humans and mice to attract mosquitoes and spread to new hosts. Zika and dengue fever viruses…
Incredible Virus Discovery Offers Clues About the Origins of Complex Life
The first discovery of viruses infecting a group of microbes that may include the ancestors of all complex life has been found, scientists at The…
Hunting for the Immune Cells That Lead to Severe COVID-19
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering researchers point to macrophages. When a virus makes its way into a person’s body, one of the…
“Viral Dark Matter” Could Help Mitigate Climate Change – Here’s How
Study identifies 1,200+ RNA viruses with connections to carbon flux. Many scientists believe that climate change is a significant threat and that we are running…
Convergent Evolution: Why COVID-19 Antibody Treatments Aren’t As Effective for New Variants
The new peer-reviewed paper can help inform the development of new vaccines and therapeutics. When SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease, first appeared, it…
New Type of Coronavirus Discovered in Rodents
Researchers from the Zoonosis Science Center at Uppsala University have identified a new coronavirus. Their study of approximately 260 bank voles caught around Grimsö, Örebro…
Monkeypox FAQ: Where Did It Come From? How Is It Transmitted? What Are the Symptoms?
Since spreading outside of Africa and into Europe and North America, the news has been filled with warnings about the monkeypox outbreak. In fact, according…
First Complete DNA Sequencing of Monkeypox Virus in Switzerland
The Geneva Center for Emerging Viral Diseases (UNIGE / HUG) shares the first sequencing results of the monkeypox genome from Switzerland. The full monkeypox virus…
Why We Can’t “Boost” Our Way Out of the COVID-19 Pandemic
You may be wondering whether the long-term plans for the COVID-19 pandemic call for an endless number of booster shots. They do provide a boost…
Study Shines Light on Immune Responses for Long-Lasting Protection From COVID-19
By uniting research from 8 cohorts across the United States, a group of researchers has accelerated the collection of data integral in answering questions about…
5 Bizarre Medical Conditions You’ve Never Heard Of
You’ve probably heard of many diseases and health problems that befall humanoids, but there are some strange syndromes out there that you probably aren’t familiar…
How Three Mutations Work Together To Spur New COVID-19 Variants
Like storm waves battering a ship, new versions of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, have buffeted the world one after another. Recently, scientists keeping…
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Outbreak: Watch Out for These “Super Spreader” Bird Species
A new study from researchers at Tufts University details which species are super spreaders. When it comes to avian influenza, more commonly called bird flu,…