Virology

Credit: Photo by Dwight Andrews/ McGovern Medical School Five innovative cancer-fighting projects at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) received just over $11 million during the latest round of grants…

Credit: Xin-Ni Lim, Emerging Infectious Diseases Programme, Duke-NUS Medical School Dengue virus (DENV) infects about 400 million people annually around the world, with a high prevalence in tropical and sub-tropical regions. The…

Yellow fever is a viral infection spread by various species of mosquito and is rife in 34 countries in Africa and 13 in Latin America. Infection may be asymptomatic and go unnoticed or, on the contrary, it may progress rapidly to severe…

Twenty years ago, scientists and investors were giddy over the promise of gene therapy to cure a host of deadly diseases. But the tragic death of a young man from an experimental treatment in 1999 nearly ended a scientist's career and the…

PHILADELPHIA--The Pew Charitable Trusts announced today the six pairs of researchers who will make up its 2019 class of Innovation Fund investigators. These investigators--alumni of Pew's biomedical programs in the United States and…

An unprecedented genetic plasticity and a putative function of NA "Influenza viruses have an inherent high mutation rate," explains Prof. Martin Schwemmle of the Medical Center - University of Freiburg and coordinator of this study.…

Iron-deficient blood makes it easier for dengue virus to colonize and multiply in mosquitoes' guts Mosquitoes are more likely to acquire the dengue virus when they feed on blood with low levels of iron, researchers report in the 16…

Credit: Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (https://phil.cdc.gov/Details.aspx?pid=5630) Enteroviral infections are common viral infections with usually rather few symptoms and also believed to be linked to the onset…

Research links specific immune responses in HIV-negative babies to the HIV-positive status of their mothers KINGSTON, R.I. - September 10, 2019 - In the August 16 edition of Nature Scientific Reports, scientists at the University of Rhode…

The Epstein Barr virus (EBV) is very widespread. More than 90 percent of the world's population is infected - with very different consequences. Although the infection does not usually affect people, in some it can cause glandular fever or…