US Starts Clinical Trial for mRNA Nipah Virus Vaccine
The experimental Nipah virus vaccine (mRNA-1215) is manufactured by Moderna, Inc. and was developed in collaboration with NIAID’s Vaccine Research ...
Tag: Nipah Virus
Building Better Antivirals for the Next Pandemic
New research shows for the first time why the antiviral drug remdesivir works against some viruses but not others—a finding ...
WSU to Lead USAID’s Global Sampling Project for Discovery of Emerging Viral Zoonoses
The USAID Discovery & Exploration of Emerging Pathogens - Viral Zoonoses (DEEP VZN) project, will build scientific capacity in partner ...
New Initiative to Support Studies of the Bat Immune System
Understanding the mechanisms of how bats regulate immune responses to clear infections and prevent excessive inflammation may lead to a ...
Heading Off The Next Pandemic
As the COVID-19 pandemic heads for a showdown with vaccines it’s expected to lose, many experts in the field of ...
Deforestation Leading to More Infectious Diseases in Humans
60 percent of new infectious diseases that emerge in people—including HIV, Ebola , and Nipah, all of which originated in ...
‘One Health’ Keeps Humans One Step Ahead of the Microbes
For a healthy planet, the health of all living creatures is equally important. One Health is a fairly new concept ...
WHO Updates Blueprint List of Priority Diseases
The 2018 review of the World Health Organization’s Blueprint list of priority diseases occurred February 6-7, 2018. Given their potential ...
Researchers Closer to Countering Deadly Nipah Virus
Transmission electron micrograph depict Nipah virus virions that had been isolated from a patient's cerebrospinal fluid. An interdisciplinary research team ...
Deadly Nipah Virus: Researchers Uncover Structure of Key Protein
Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute have found the structure of a key protein in the Nipah virus, which could ...
MERS Virus Discovered in Bat Near Outbreak Site in Saudi Arabia
A 100% genetic match for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) has been discovered in an insect-eating bat in close proximity ...
India Completes First Biodefense Level 4 Lab
Officials from the Indian Council of Medical Research last week announced completion of the nation’s first Bio-Safety Level 4 (BSL ...
New Tool to Estimate Pandemic Threats from Zoonotic Viruses
Researchers from the Imperial College London and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have identified a simple new ...
UCLA: Newly Identified Protein Blocks Deadly Viruses
Research led by a team from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has identified a protein with broad virus-fighting ...
Agricultural Pathogen Detection System RFI
The Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology Directorate (DHS S&T) is seeking new technical efforts for field deployable detection ...
Laboratories Team Up to Develop BSL 4 Level Screening Platform
Southern Research Institute and the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston will collaborate to develop and validate a ...
