September 4, 2024 by University of Glasgow Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainScientists are pioneering the use of machine-learning artificial intelligence software to investigate viruses, revealing never-before-seen viral mechanisms which yield immediate fundamental insights and pave the way for vaccine development. The research, led by the MRC-University of Glasgow Center for Virus Research (CVR) in collaboration with...
News Release 4-Sep-2024 Peer-Reviewed PublicationLiverpool School of Tropical Medicine New research shows that parasitic nematodes, responsible for infecting more than a billion people globally, carry viruses that may solve the puzzle of why some cause serious diseases. A study led by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) used cutting-edge bioinformatic data mining techniques to identify...
A new study reveals a surprising fact: humans are actually spreading more viruses to animals than we receive from them.Edited by Nikhil Pandey Humans pass on more viruses to domestic and wild animals than we catch from them. For years, animals like rats and bats have been blamed for spreading diseases to humans. However, a...
By FELICITY NELSON Amyloid plaques in Alzheimer’s disease (Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library/Getty Images)A study of around 500,000 medical records suggested that severe viral infections like encephalitis and pneumonia increase the risk of neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. Researchers found 22 connections between viral infections and neurodegenerative conditions in the study of around 450,000 people....
by Leslie Tate, Tulane University Host nutrient metabolism is altered in response to viruses. a, Viruses such as HCV and SARS-CoV-2 interact with entry/metabolic factors to increase fatty acid synthesis, triglycerides and lipid droplets essential for replication and trafficking of viruses to the cell membrane. b, Interactions between HIV and its entry/metabolic factors trigger PI3K–mTOR–HIF-1α...
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY IMAGE: A DELTA BACTERIOPHAGE, THE FIRST IDENTIFIED IN A NEW STUDY IN FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY TO HAVE BINDING SITES FOR CTRA, A PROTEIN PRODUCED BY THE BACTERIOPHAGE’S HOST THAT REGULATES THE PRODUCTION OF PILI AND FLAGELLA. THE PRESENCE OF THESE BINDING SITES ONLY IN PHAGES THAT REQUIRE THEIR HOST CELLS...
Maya Davis August 09, 2022 Taking notes from blockbusters such as Outbreak and World War Z, viruses are typically seen as harmful agents to be wary of. But scientists have found they may be the key to helping the millions of people living with inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD. New research from the Weizmann Institute of Science has shown that bacteriophages...
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT Zika and dengue fever viruses alter the scent of mice and humans they infect, researchers report in the 30 June issue of Cell. The altered scent attracts mosquitoes, which bite the host, drink their infected blood and then carry the virus to its next victim. Dengue is spread by mosquitoes in tropical areas...
COVID-19 got us talking about viruses and antiviral treatment and antiviral therapies in general, but the truth is that these tiny organisms have been bothering humanity for the entirety of our history. In fact, now we are better equipped to fight them. Researchers at the Universities of York, York St John, and Leeds designed a new approach...
by Eva Botkin-Kowacki, Northeastern University Jared Auclair, associate teaching professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Northeastern, head of the Biopharmaceutical Analysis Training Lab, and the university’s COVID-19 testing facility, the Life Sciences Testing Center in Burlington, Massachusetts. Credit: Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University Variants of the coronavirus have come to represent the ultimate danger: A curveball in...
