Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center Website Now Available
The Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center (BV-BRC), an initiative funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), ...
Tag: Virology
US Announces Plans for Public Health Pathogen Genomics Centers of Excellence
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is forecasting plans to fund in 2022 the establishment of multiple Public Health ...
T Cells Primed Up From mRNA Vaccines Able to Recognize SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern
Researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) have found that T cells from people who have recovered from COVID-19 ...
Novel Therapy for Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus
U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) scientists are working as part of an international consortium have developed ...
A Virologist Explains Their Concerns About Coronavirus Variants
Spring has sprung, and there is a sense of relief in the air. After one year of lockdowns and social ...
How Good Is the AstraZeneca Vaccine – And Is It Really Safe?
Over the past few months, there have been concerns over how effective and how safe the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine really ...
How Effective is the First Shot of the Pfizer or Moderna Vaccine?
As the COVID-19 vaccines reach more people across the country, some people have asked: Could we delay the second dose ...
Novel Coronavirus Circulated Undetected Months Before First Cases in Wuhan, China
Using molecular dating tools and epidemiological simulations, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues at ...
mRNA Treatment Shows Promise for Stopping Flu and COVID-19 Viruses
With a relatively minor genetic change, a new treatment developed by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory ...
Why We’ll Get COVID Booster Vaccines Quickly and How We Know They’re Safe
The United States’ drug regulator, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), said last week COVID vaccines updated for variants won’t ...
What Happens When a Person Is Simultaneously Infected with Two Different SARS-CoV-2 Variants?
Scientists in Brazil recently reported that two people were simultaneously infected with two different variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that ...
OSU’s New Vaccine Candidate for COVID-19 Capitalizes on Measles Vaccine’s Successful History
A new SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate, developed by giving a key protein’s gene a ride into the body while encased in ...
New Evidence COVID-19 Antibodies, Vaccines Less Effective Against Worrisome Variants
New research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis indicates that three new, fast-spreading variants of the virus ...
Humidity in Breath Makes Cotton Masks More Effective at Slowing Spread of SARS-CoV-2
Researchers have come up with a better way to test which fabrics work best for masks that are meant to ...
Tracing and Controlling Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza
Scientists have discovered a route of introduction for Highly Pathogenicity Avian Influenza Virus (HPAIV) H5N8 into Japan and, in parallel, ...
How to Detect When a Virus is Infecting Important Bacterial Populations
The pandemic has made clear the threat that some viruses pose to people. But viruses can also infect life-sustaining bacteria ...
How the South African COVID-19 Variant Was Found
Variants of the coronavirus are appearing in different parts of the world, many of them spreading with alarming speed. One ...
UC San Diego Awarded NIH Funding for Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx)
University of California San Diego was awarded five Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) projects by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), totaling ...
VIDO Gains Support Towards Becoming Canadian Centre for Pandemic Research
The Government of Saskatchewan has committed $15 million to support the University of Saskatchewan’s (USask) Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization’s ...
SARS-CoV-2 Stem-Loop II Motif: Potential Target for Anti-viral Drugs
While the world awaits broad distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, researchers at Ohio University just published highly significant and timely results ...
