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 ...
Understanding the mechanisms of how bats regulate immune responses to clear infections and prevent excessive inflammation may lead to a ...
Infectious disease experts at Alberta Precision Laboratories (APL) and the University of Alberta have confirmed that histoplasmosis - a fungal ...
Using molecular dating tools and epidemiological simulations, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues at ...
Scientists have discovered a route of introduction for Highly Pathogenicity Avian Influenza Virus (HPAIV) H5N8 into Japan and, in parallel, ...
Pandemics past and present have been caused when pathogens – germs that cause disease – move between animals and humans, ...
As the COVID-19 pandemic heads for a showdown with vaccines it’s expected to lose, many experts in the field of ...
In late summer, as researchers accelerated the first clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines for humans, a group of scientists in ...
New research shows pigs could serve as amplifying hosts for Reston ebolavirus. Reston ebolavirus (RESTV) should be considered a livestock ...
U.S. Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, ...
One Health Day, held annually on Nov. 3, is an international campaign to engage as many individuals as possible on ...
Artificial light abnormally increases mosquito biting behavior at night in a species that typically prefers to bite people during the ...
Professor Emma Teeling is co-founder of Bat 1K, an initiative to sequence the genomes of all bat species. She is ...
It is both a concept, a strategy, and a goal. “One Health” has gradually established itself in the life sciences, ...
Rubella virus, since it was first identified in 1962, has been the only known member of its virus family, Matonaviridae. ...
In 2014, an avian influenza virus caused an outbreak in harbor and gray seals in northern Europe, killing over 10% ...
Viruses jumping from animals to humans have been the starting point of numerous outbreaks, from Ebola to Zika. Given the ...
The pandemic has reached a grim milestone: one million people have now died of COVID-19, according to Worldometers. On January ...
The United States, through the Biological Threat Reduction Program (BTRP), has funded an advanced laboratory in Central Luzon, Philippines, in ...
The new Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases (CREID) — comprised of 10 research centers and a coordinating center — is ...
The previous pandemics to which people often compare COVID-19 – the influenza pandemic of 1918, the Black Death bubonic plague ...