Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, have discovered a “hidden target”
Category: viruses
H3N2 viruses mutate during vaccine production but new tech could fix it
In late March 2019, the World Health Organization and a vaccine advisory committee of the Food and Drug Administration selected
Cold plasma can kill 99.9% of airborne viruses, U-M study shows
Dangerous airborne viruses are rendered harmless on-the-fly when exposed to energetic, charged fragments of air molecules, University of Michigan researchers
NIH scientists explore tick salivary glands as tool to study virus transmission and infection
The salivary glands of some tick species could become important research tools for studying how viruses are transmitted from ticks
Human respiratory viruses continue to spread in wild chimpanzees
Less than two years after the first report of wild chimpanzees in Uganda dying as a result of a human
How viruses affect the immune system
Fighting infections depends on bodies’ capacity to quickly recognize infected cells and destroy them, a job done by a class
Using viruses to fight viruses
Researchers at The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa have discovered that the Maraba virus, or MG1, can target
Viruses share gene with some organisms
A new study finds that viruses share some genes exclusively with cells that are not their hosts, viruses swap genes
Papillomaviruses cause non-melanoma skin cancer
UV radiation has been known for a long time to be a risk factor for the development of skin cancer.
HPV vaccine is better than the Pap smear for cancer detection
Testing for cervical cancer using HPV testing in addition to the Pap smear is unlikely to detect cancer cases that
