All Virology
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…
Polio spread of international concern
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 May 2014
The World Health Organization has declared the international spread of wild poliovirus in 2014 a Pu…
Sorting the good from the bad bacteria
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Oct 2013
There are good bacteria and bad bacteria – some coexisting in the same species – and researchers at…
Dengue disease findings could influence anti-viral drugs
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Aug 2013
A new study into Dengue, an insect-borne tropical disease that infects up to 390 million worldwide …
UK Flusurvey goes viral
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Nov 2012
Researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine are appealing for people to sig…
