Viruses
From a fleet of shining beetles to sharks and an alarming bird virus, spanning five continents and three oceans, these discoveries add to Earth's tree of life
"Our paper shows that it’s possible to attenuate RSV without losing any immunogenicity," says senior author
46 percent of pregnancies studied showed abnormalities
The technology is an influenza B vaccine virus “backbone” that would allow producers to grow vaccine viruses at high yield in mammalian cell culture rather than in eggs
The current Zika virus outbreak, which began in 2015 and is spread through mosquito bites and sexual intercourse, has been confirmed in 47 countries and has affected 1.3 billion people around the world
MERS, a severe respiratory illness with symptoms of fever, cough and shortness of breath, has a mortality rate of approximately 36 percent
How a highly potent antibody that neutralizes Zika infection was discovered
Scientists from the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in Austria (IMBA) have now unraveled the precise mechanisms by which germline cells produce a class of small RNA
Similar protection studies in primates are warranted, and if the findings hold up, ZIKV-177 could be developed as a protective antibody treatment for pregnant women at risk of Zika infection, the researchers concluded
