‘Give me the calcium!’ Tulane virus takes over cellular calcium signaling to replicate
Credit: The Hyser lab Some gastrointestinal viruses need calcium. They need calcium ions to carry out several essential aspects of ...
Tag: Virology
How the Zika virus can spread
Scientists from Goethe University and Senckenberg Society for Nature Research are developing maps on the Zika virus infection riskCredit: Dorian ...
Melting arctic sea ice linked to emergence of deadly virus in marine mammals
Loss of ice opens pathways for disease transmission among sea lions, ice seals, sea otters and othersCredit: NOAA Fisheries, Polar ...
UMass Amherst researchers develop new technology to detect foodborne disease
Food scientist awarded two USDA grants to study better ways to identify pathogensCredit: UMass Amherst University of Massachusetts Amherst food ...
Bats in Northeast India carry filoviruses that can infect humans
Credit: Dr Zavei Hiese Researchers have proposed that bats are the natural reservoir of filoviruses, including highly fatal Ebola and ...
New gene therapy for epilepsy provides on-demand release of endogenous substance
Preclinical study shows long-term suppression of seizuresCredit: Schwarzer/Medical University of Innsbruck Teams of researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and ...
A weapon to make a superbug to become more deadly
Professor Chen and his team carried out experiments to compare the survival rates of the mice infected with different bacterial ...
Fighting the herpes virus
Credit: Felix Petermann, MDC New insights into preventing herpes infections have been published in Nature Communications. Researchers from the Berlin ...
Newly discovered virus infects bald eagles across America
Credit: UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- Researchers have discovered a previously unknown virus infecting nearly a third of America's bald eagle ...
Researchers uncover novel virus type that may shed light on viral evolution
Credit: FIGURE ADAPTED FROM Infection, Genetics and Evolution. 75 (2019) 103975. © 2019 Published by Elsevier B.V. Viruses are non-living ...
Family of crop viruses revealed at high resolution for the first time
Credit: Univeristy of Leeds For the first-time we can take a molecular-level look at one of the world's deadliest crop ...
Ebola antibodies at work
Scientists in Israel and Germany show, on the molecular level, how an experimental vaccine offers long-term protection against the diseaseCredit: ...
Bacteria trapped — and terminated — by graphene filter
Rice lab adapts laser-induced graphene to remove pathogens from the airCredit: Tour Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (Oct. 7, 2019) - ...
New bioinformatics hub at UChicago enables next-gen infectious disease research
NIH-funded resource merges pathogen databases and adds AI capabilitiesCredit: PATRIC/University of Chicago The most valuable weapon against the next deadly ...