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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…
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…
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…
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…
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
qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.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
qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.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
qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.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
qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.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
qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.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
qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.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
qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | 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
qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | 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
qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | 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?
qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | 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
qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | 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
qwqcdhhcbc.d qwqcdhhcbc.d | Added: 19 Aug 2014
American researchers have developed a detailed map of the Ebola protein VP24, which has revealed ho…
