All Virology
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
Evoluted New Media | 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
Evoluted New Media | 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
Evoluted New Media | 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
Evoluted New Media | 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
Evoluted New Media | 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
Evoluted New Media | 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
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Oct 2014
A ‘perfect storm’ led to the global spread of the HIV pandemic, which has its roots in Kinshasa, th…
Six faces of Streptococcus
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Oct 2014
Like the faces of a die, Streptococcus pneumonia has six unique states it can switch to making it a…
IL-25 target for asthma attacks caused by colds
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Oct 2014
A small molecule called interleukin-25 might play a central role in asthma attacks brought on by th…
Why do HIV patients develop dementia?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Sep 2014
Life expectancy for patients with HIV has increased thanks to combination anti-retroviral therapy, …
Fast-tracked Ebola vaccine to enter trials
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Aug 2014
A potential vaccine against the Zaire species of Ebola, which has currently claimed 1,550 lives in …
How Ebola blocks immune system
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Aug 2014
American researchers have developed a detailed map of the Ebola protein VP24, which has revealed ho…
Malaria research close to understanding parasite lifecycle
Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Jul 2014
A Nottingham researcher who had malaria seven times as a child is close to understanding the life-c…
H10N8 bird flu unlikely to threaten public health
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 May 2014
H10N8, the most recent avian influenza virus to infect humans, is unlikely to cause a threat to pub…
