All Virology
Lab-made virus mimics COVID-19 virus
Added: 23 Jul 2020
Airborne and potentially deadly, the virus that causes COVID-19 can only be studied safely under hi…
Human rights in biomedicine: action plan 2020-2025
Added: 25 Jun 2020
On 24 June 2020, in Strasbourg, the Bioethics Committee launched its new action plan on human right…
Survival of coronavirus in different cities, on different surfaces
Added: 11 Jun 2020
One of the many questions researchers have about COVID-19 is how long the coronavirus causing the d…
Widespread facemask use could shrink the 'R' number and prevent a second COVID-19 wave
Added: 10 Jun 2020
Population-wide use of facemasks keeps the coronavirus 'reproduction number' under 1.0, and prevent…
What’s your poison?
Sarah Lawton | Added: 11 May 2020
Why are so many drugs derived from natural sources on the market to treat human disease? Venom-mast…
A counterintuitive approach to treating Covid-19
Added: 4 May 2020
A new USC study suggests that temporarily suppressing the body's immune system during the early sta…
Going (anti)viral
Added: 28 Apr 2020
Dermot Martin catches us up with the rapid reaction of the biopharma community to meet the Covid-19…
A very positive destruction
Added: 2 Dec 2019
Totally eradicating disease is a very rare thing indeed and requires, among other things, global co…
Procarta awarded £7.4M for microbial treatment
Added: 23 Sep 2019
Biotechnology company Procarta Biosystems will receive up to £7.4 million to develop a new class of…
Going viral
Added: 28 Aug 2019
Foodborne viruses present a major challenge to the safety of a range of foods including ready–to–ea…
Ebola patients cured with mAb drugs
Added: 13 Aug 2019
Two monoclonal antibody drugs will be used to treat Ebola patients in the Democratic Republic of Co…
Game Theory: Linkage
Added: 5 Aug 2019
Games have never been more popular and in their column the newest recruits to the Lab News team, Dr…
HIV virus eliminated with CRISPR and new antiretroviral therapy
Added: 4 Jul 2019
Replication-competent HIV-1 DNA – the virus responsible for AIDS – has been eliminated from the gen…
Protein key to malaria parasite’s lifecycle
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 26 Oct 2018
New research suggests that a regulator protein, AP2-G, may hold the key to finding new approaches t…
Nobel prize winning tech reveals herpes virus structure
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 16 Jul 2018
Researchers at the University of Glasgow have used cryo-electron microscopy to reveal the detailed …
Bacteria used to block dengue and Zika
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 15 Feb 2018
Scientists at the University of Glasgow have found a bacterial strain which blocks dengue and Zika …
New test can detect any virus
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 12 Nov 2015
Scientists have designed a test that can detect not only any known virus type and subtype but also …
Origin of new lineages of human AIDS discovered
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 26 Mar 2015
Two new lineages of the virus which causes AIDS have been found to originate from western lowland g…
Liquid DNA behind virus attacks
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 22 Oct 2014
New studies show viruses convert their DNA into liquid form to be injected into host cells, finding…
‘Perfect storm’ led to spread of HIV
qmtbqdmdjq.d qmtbqdmdjq.d | Added: 14 Oct 2014
A ‘perfect storm’ led to the global spread of the HIV pandemic, which has its roots in Kinshasa, th…
