Smartphone Norovirus (‘Cruise Ship’ Microbe) Detector [Video]
Made infamous by outbreaks on cruise ships, norovirus can really ruin a vacation, causing severe vomiting, diarrhea and stomach pain. But the highly infectious virus…
Made infamous by outbreaks on cruise ships, norovirus can really ruin a vacation, causing severe vomiting, diarrhea and stomach pain. But the highly infectious virus…
New research from Stockholm University and Karolinska Institutet shows that viruses interact with proteins in the biological fluids of their host which results in a…
An international team of scientists led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the University of Kiel has…
An employee of Belozersky Research Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology (RI PCB), MSU together with a Russian colleague analyzed the ways of increasing the survivability of…
Using a homemade, high-tech microscope, scientists at the School of Medicine have revealed how a cancer-causing virus anchors itself to our DNA. That discovery could…
A Yale-led research team made a startling discovery while investigating the effect of bacteria on viral infections. When they applied a common topical antibiotic to…
Viruses are intracellular parasites that cause disease by infecting the cells in the body and, in a study published today in Nature Microbiology, researchers at…
An anti-bacterial virus found in a Connecticut lake successfully treated an 80-year-old doctor with a life-threatening antibiotic-resistant infection in his heart, a Yale team of…
How do viruses that cause chronic infections, such as HIV or hepatitis c virus, manage to outsmart their hosts’ immune systems? The answer to that…
A type of virus that dominates water samples taken from the world’s oceans has long escaped analysis because it has characteristics that standard tests can’t…
A new test that measures RNA or protein molecules in human cells can accurately identify viral infection as a cause of respiratory symptoms, according to…
New research from Yale University reveals that a common sedative may help combat common viral infections that can cause birth defects in developing babies. The…
A team of researchers has succeeded in producing large quantities of Zika viruses in the laboratory – a crucial prerequisite for the production of vaccines….
New research from Yale University shows that the protein known as Nlrp6 plays a key role in the overall immune response that provides immediate defense…
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…
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…
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…
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…