A research team led by Dr. Zhou Jie and Professor Yuen Kwok-yung investigated the infection and replication capacity of the omicron BA.5 and other variants in human respiratory organoids established by the team. The findings ...
Apr 20, 2023
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A new software tool developed by Texas Biomedical Research Institute and collaborators can help scientists and vaccine developers quickly edit genetic blueprints of pathogens to make them less harmful.
Mar 15, 2023
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Influenza viruses are becoming increasingly resilient to medicines. For this reason, new active ingredients are needed. Important findings in this regard have been provided by researchers at the University of Münster: for ...
Feb 24, 2023
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A new University of California, Irvine-led study uncovers how a protein called APOBEC3B could protect cells against many different types of RNA viruses like respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), SARS-CoV2, influenza virus, poliovirus ...
Feb 22, 2023
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Viruses use the molecular repertoire of the host cell to replicate. Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence ImmunoSensation2 at the University of Bonn, together with Japanese researchers, want to exploit this for the treatment ...
Feb 9, 2023
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A new study by various Swiss universities, including EPFL, shows that aerosols in indoor air can vary in acidity. This acidity determines how long viruses such as influenza and SARS-CoV-2 remain infectious in the air—with ...
Dec 21, 2022
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An experimental mRNA-based vaccine against all 20 known subtypes of influenza virus has provided broad protection from otherwise lethal flu strains in initial tests, and thus might serve one day as a general preventative ...
Nov 24, 2022
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With what some are calling a "tripledemic" of COVID-19, the influenza virus and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, already soaring in many parts of the country, the holiday season will come with some tough decisions again ...
Nov 16, 2022
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An interdisciplinary team from the Leibniz Institute of Virology and China CDC shows for the first time that infection with the H7N9 avian influenza virus attacks the hormonal axis of males but not females.
Nov 16, 2022
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Though the COVID-19 pandemic provided a brief respite, influenza virus is back in circulation and, as usual, poses a special danger to people over the age of 65. But why are older people more susceptible to the flu? New research ...
Nov 10, 2022
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