Yale Researchers Reveal How HIV Spreads in Real Time
In a newly published study, scientists from Yale University directly visualize how HIV and related retroviruses disseminate in secondary lymphoid tissues of living mice. How…
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Biologists Recreate the Evolutionary Lineage of Adeno-Associated Viruses
A team of researchers from Harvard Medical School has recreated the evolutionary lineage of adeno-associated viruses, allowing them to better understand the intricate structure of…
Fewer Doses of Prophylaxis Provides Near-Optimal Protection Against RSV
Researchers from Yale and the National Institutes of Health and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality reveal that fewer doses of the antibody for…
Ebola-Like Virus Safely Destroys Brain Tumors
New research from Yale University details how scientists used a novel chimeric virus (VSV-LASV-GPC) containing genes from both Lassa and VSV to target and completely…
New Algorithm Predicts the Evolution of Viruses
Using the branches of a genealogical tree as reference, a team of scientists has developed an algorithm that can predict the evolution of asexual organisms…
Lambda Virus Architecture Finally Rendered
After more than 50 years of research, biologists now have a picture of the molecular machines that allow the lambda virus to insert or remove…
Study Reveals Copper Alloys Destroy Highly Infectious Norovirus
A newly published study reveals that copper alloys rapidly destroy the highly infectious norovirus. Scientists from the University of Southampton have discovered that copper and…
Fast-Acting Virus Targets Most Melanoma Tumors
In a newly published study, Yale University researchers show that a fast-acting virus targets most melanoma tumors after injection into the blood stream of mice….
Study Examines the Role of JC Polyomavirus
In a newly published study, scientists show that common mutant forms of the deadly JC polyomavirus are not responsible for the pathogen’s main attack that…
A New Class of Molecular Compounds Capable of Killing the Influenza Virus
In a newly published study, an international team of scientists detail a new class of molecular compounds capable of killing the influenza virus. Simon Fraser…
Video Animation on How a Flu Virus Works
This year’s flu, called H3N2, is affecting many people this season and this three-minute video with NPR’s Robert Krulwich and medical animator David Bolinsky explains…
Novel Coronavirus hCoV-EMC Infects Humans & Animals
The novel coronavirus which was discovered this summer in the Middle East might infect more than just human patients. The pathogen is closely related to…
Epidemiologists Trying to Track Down Novel Coronavirus
The new coronavirus, linked to different cases in Qatar and Saudi Arabia, was named HCoV-EMC, short for human coronavirus and the Erasmus Medical Center in…
Cases of New Coronavirus Announced By WHO
The World Health Organization announced four new cases of the novel coronavirus that caused a great deal of worry just before the October hajj season….
New Coronavirus Could Infect Millions During Hajj in Saudi Arabia
Back in February 2003, a 65-year-old physician living near Hong Kong checked into a hotel. Sometime during his stay, he encountered a dozen other people;…
Virus Has the Potential To Stop Acne
A new study reports that P. acnes phages, a family of viruses that live on human skin and naturally prey on the bacteria that cause…
West Nile Virus Might Be Linked to Kidney Problems
As of September of this year, there have been more than 2,600 new cases of West Nile virus in the USA, including 118 deaths, which…
Brucella Blocked From Bonding With Host, Could Lead to Superbug Cure
Pathogenic bacteria without their virulent factors could be rendered harmless and eliminated by the human immune system. That’s the goal that a group of researchers…
