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Showing posts with label Virology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Virology. Show all posts
Saturday, December 6, 2025

Receptors in mammary glands make livestock and humans inviting hosts for avian flu

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Microscope-captured images of a mammary gland of a pig show the presence of influenza receptors. In the image on the left, receptors for avi...
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

New Method Uncovers How Viruses Evade Immune Responses — and How We Might Fight Back

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Co-first authors Erin Doherty (left) and Jason Nomburg (right) Photo Credit: Courtesy of Innovative Genomics Institute Viruses and their hos...
Friday, November 14, 2025

Severe impact of avian flu on southern elephant seals

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Elephant seals on Lagoon Island near Ryder Bay, Adelaide Island. Photo Credit: Steve Gibbs, BAS New research reveals 47% decline in breeding...

New study finds higher hantavirus risk in drier, underdeveloped areas

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A study of the long-term risk of contracting hantavirus across large geographic areas provides public health officials with information abou...
Friday, November 7, 2025

Newly Discovered Host Mechanism in Coronaviruses

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Cell culture cells expressing a kinase activity reporter (green) after infection with the human coronavirus HCoV-229E (red). Cell nuclei are...
Friday, October 17, 2025

New antivirals could help prevent cold sores by changing cell structures

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Pin1 inhibitors suppress HSV-1 replication by inhibiting viral protein synthesis and preventing nucleocapsid egress from the nucleus. Illust...
Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Researchers find key to stopping deadly infection

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When rotavirus enters a cell without the FA2H enzyme, it becomes trapped in pockets called endosomes (indicated by red arrows). This prevent...
Sunday, October 5, 2025

Sudan Ebola virus can persist in survivors for months

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Image Credit: AI Generated More than half of survivors of the Sudan Ebola virus still suffer serious health problems two years post-infectio...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

How mosquito-borne viruses breach the brain’s defenses

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Stem cell-derived blood-brain barrier cells. Image Credit: Pablo Alvarez/Li Lab  Mosquito-borne viruses can cause more than fevers and joint...
Monday, September 22, 2025

Koala stress linked to disease threat

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Many koalas in the study were successfully treated for Chlamydia before being released back into the wild. Photo Credit: Currumbin Wildlife ...
Monday, February 10, 2025

Influenza A viruses adapt shape in response to environmental pressures

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Colorized transmission electron micrograph of influenza A virus particles, colorized red and gold, isolated from a patient sample and then p...
Tuesday, January 28, 2025

UQ team finds relative of deadly Hendra virus in the US

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A northern short-tailed shrew Photo Credit:  RPN Researchers at The University of Queensland have identified the first henipavirus in North ...
Thursday, January 23, 2025

Better prediction of epidemics

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The curve calculated using a “reproduction matrix” (turquoise) reflects the actual infection rate (black) much more accurately than previous...
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Study explains why some osteoporosis drugs may protect against Covid-19

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Drugs already in-use for other conditions could help in the fight against Covid-19 and its variants Photo Credit: Courtesy of University of ...

NIH-funded study finds cases of ME/CFS increase following SARS-CoV-2

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Photo Credit:  Bruno Aguirre New findings from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) Ini...
Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Discovery of how COVID-19 virus replicates opens door to new antiviral therapies

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A new study, looking at the replication stage of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, discovered important mechanisms in its replicati...

Discovery could end global amphibian pandemic

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Panamanian golden frog Photo Credit: Brian Gratwicke/U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service A fungus devastating frogs and toads on nearly every c...
Thursday, March 28, 2024

New Method Developed to Isolate HIV Particles

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The image shows PNF-coated magnetic microbeads that bind HIV particles to their surface. Image Credit: Torsten John Researchers at Leipzig U...
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Researchers a step closer to a cure for HIV

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HIV, the AIDS virus (yellow), infecting a human cell Image Credit:  National Cancer Institute A new study involving University of Bristol re...
Thursday, March 21, 2024

Research offers hope for preventing post-COVID ‘brain fog’ by targeting brain’s blood vessels

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Blood vessel endothelial cells (green) and basement membrane (red) in the brain. Image Credit: Sarah Lutz Among the many confounding symptom...