Tag: Virology

Cells sampled at the time of diagnosis from patients who later developed severe COVID-19 show a muted antiviral response, study ...

Advantages of intranasal vaccination against SARS-CoV-2

Intranasal vaccination is needle-free and elicits immunity at the site of infection, the respiratory tractCredit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - There ...

“Noisy” gene expression may help improve stem cell therapies

Gladstone researchers discover fundamental mechanism that appears to speed the change of stem cells into other cell typesCredit: Photo: Michael ...

UMass Amherst grad student awarded fellowship for food allergy research

USDA program focuses on developing next generation of food scientistsCredit: UMass Amherst University of Massachusetts Amherst food science Ph.D. candidate ...

Less-sensitive COVID-19 tests may still achieve optimal results if enough people tested

Analysis suggests same epidemiological outcomes possible with rapid-antigen versus RT-PCR tests A computational analysis of COVID-19 tests suggests that, in ...

Cell-analysis technique could combat tuberculosis

ITHACA, N.Y. - A new method that analyzes how individual immune cells react to the bacteria that cause tuberculosis could ...

Interaction identified between SARS-CoV-2 and unusual RNA structures in human cells

Replication of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, depends on a series of interactions between viral proteins and different cellular ...

Longitudinal serological and vaccination responses to SARS-COV-2 in dental professionals

Alexandria, Va., USA - Iain Chapple, University of Birmingham, England, presented the oral session "Longitudinal Serological and Vaccination Responses to ...

Llama ‘nanobodies’ could hold key to preventing deadly post-transplant infection

Scientists have developed a 'nanobody' - a small fragment of a llama antibody - that is capable of chasing out ...

Long COVID and severe COVID-19 infections associated with Epstein-Barr virus reactivation

Credit: Jeffrey E. Gold, Ramazan A. Okyay, Warren E. Licht, and David J. Hurley Two recently published studies available on ...

Toward one drug to treat all coronaviruses

Safe and effective vaccines offer hope for an end to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the possible emergence of vaccine-resistant SARS-CoV-2 ...

Traditional Japanese food may hold building blocks of COVID-19 treatments

Credit: Part of Figure is adopted from Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications Volume 570, 17 September 2021, Pages 21-25. © ...

Effectiveness of mRNA vaccines against the Alpha and Beta variants in France

ComCor study: analysis of the effectiveness of messenger RNA vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha and Beta variants in France Over ...

SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.617 gives the immune system a hard time

SARS-CoV-2 still poses major challenges to mankind. The frequent emergence of mutant forms makes the threat posed by the virus ...

SARS-CoV-2 spike mutation L452R evades human immune response and enhances infectivity

Credit: Dr. Chihiro Motozono An international team of researchers led by Kumamoto and Tokyo Universities (Japan) have shown that the ...

Study refutes suspicion that dengue increases risk of microcephaly associated with zika

Researchers compared data for pregnant women in two cities who were infected by zika virus in 2015-16. Factors that influenced ...

15,000-year-old viruses discovered in Tibetan glacier ice

Most of the viruses were previously unknown to humans, study findsCredit: Image courtesy Lonnie Thompson, The Ohio State University COLUMBUS, ...

SARS-CoV-2: Achilles’ heel of viral RNA

Researchers at Goethe University find small molecules as binding partners for genomic RNA of the coronavirus FRANKFURT, GERMANY. When SARS-CoV-2 ...

No horsing around: super-fast Hendra test developed

Credit: The University of Queensland University of Queensland vets are diagnosing the deadly Hendra virus in horses faster than ever, ...

Novel coronavirus discovered in British bats