Avian Flu Outbreak in Illinois Spread from Backyard Poultry to Mammals
A case study of an Illinois backyard poultry outbreak found that H5N1 avian influenza carrying a mammalian-adaptation marker spread to ...
Tag: Virology
Global Consortium Establishes Standardized Framework to Curate PRRSV-2 Viral Lineages
The International PRRSV-2 Nomenclature Consortium has established a global framework to coordinate the ongoing curation, standardized naming, and web-based classification ...
New Virotyping Framework Guides Antiviral Combination Design
A new review in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences proposes a hierarchical therapeutic virotyping framework to guide the design of ...
First Autochthonous Human SFTS Virus Cases Documented in Inner Mongolia
Researchers have documented the first laboratory-confirmed autochthonous human cases of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus in Inner Mongolia alongside ...
Viruses Rely on Host Polyamine Metabolism to Complete Their Life Cycles
A new review examines how clinically important viruses reshape host cell polyamine biosynthesis and degradation to support their own replication.
How Enterovirus A71 Reaches the Brain: A Multistage Model of Neuroinvasion
A new review proposes a multistage progression-constraint model explaining why most Enterovirus A71 infections remain peripheral while only a minority ...
Genomic Surveillance and Structural Analysis Drive Next Generation of Viral Diagnostics and Vaccines
Molecular and phylogenetic insights are essential for advancing diagnostics and vaccine development by providing high-resolution data on viral evolution and ...
New Scoring Framework Ranks Viral K-mers by Biological Significance
A new framework ranks viral k-mers by combining strain-distinguishing power with mutation impact and protein annotation information.
Gladstone Scientists Melanie Ott and Alex Marson Join National Academy of Medicine
Gladstone Institutes physician-scientists Melanie Ott and Alex Marson have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine in recognition of ...
Simpler, Long-Acting Antiretroviral Strategies Reshape HIV Prevention and Care
A new review in Virology Journal examines how simplified and long-acting antiretroviral regimens reduce treatment burden across the HIV prevention ...
Zika Virus Splits One Protein Into Two Forms With Opposing Jobs in Its Life Cycle
New research in PLOS Pathogens shows that Zika virus produces two isoforms of the NS2A protein, with the full-length form ...
Silencing HPV16 Oncogenes E5 and E6 Emerges as a Promising Route Against Cervical Cancer
A new review in Virology Journal examines how siRNA and CRISPR/Cas gene-silencing technologies could target the HPV16 oncoproteins E5 and ...
Pet Rats Suspected in First Human Cowpox Cases Recorded in Czech Republic
The first documented human cowpox infections in the Czech Republic affected two young adults whose pet rats died of respiratory ...
Fatty Liver Cells Turn On a Caspase-2 Death Pathway That Damps Hepatitis B Replication
New in vitro research shows that free fatty acid–induced steatosis activates a TNF-α/TNFR1–Caspase−8/Caspase−2 apoptotic pathway that is associated with reduced ...
Nanoscale Viral Mechanisms Revealed by Expansion Microscopy
In the rapidly evolving field of virology, the ability to visualize viral components and interactions at the nanoscale is critical ...
Advantages of intranasal vaccination against SARS-CoV-2
Intranasal vaccination is needle-free and elicits immunity at the site of infection, the respiratory tractCredit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - There ...
UMass Amherst grad student awarded fellowship for food allergy research
USDA program focuses on developing next generation of food scientistsCredit: UMass Amherst University of Massachusetts Amherst food science Ph.D. candidate ...
“Noisy” gene expression may help improve stem cell therapies
Gladstone researchers discover fundamental mechanism that appears to speed the change of stem cells into other cell typesCredit: Photo: Michael ...
Less-sensitive COVID-19 tests may still achieve optimal results if enough people tested
Analysis suggests same epidemiological outcomes possible with rapid-antigen versus RT-PCR testsCredit: Philip Cherian, Sandeep Krishna and Gautam Menon, 2021, PLOS ...
Long COVID and severe COVID-19 infections associated with Epstein-Barr virus reactivation
Credit: Jeffrey E. Gold, Ramazan A. Okyay, Warren E. Licht, and David J. Hurley Two recently published studies available on ...
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