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Virus engineered to rely on artificial amino acids, used as vaccine

Synthetic biology has become a catch-all term for attempts to engineer organisms to do things they normally wouldn’t. Efforts so far have ranged from assembling logic circuits inside bacteria to replacing an...

2 December, 2016

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Complex molecular structure in Zika virus

Researchers, led by scientists at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, have found basic molecular processes used by the Zika virus to “hijack” the cells that it infects and potentially how it makes molecules...

18 November, 2016

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FDA research to help speed development of Zika virus vaccines and therapeutics

Neonatal mouse model provides a new platform for Zika virus research A new mouse model developed by scientists at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration may help in exploring the potential activity of Zika virus vaccines...

18 November, 2016

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Hepatitis C virus tricks liver cells to sabotage immune defenses

Virus induces liver cells to make molecules that inhibit production of a key immune signaling receptor. The virus that causes hepatitis C protects itself by blocking signals that call up immune defenses in liver cells...

18 November, 2016

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Can nanotechnology help develop a workable dengue virus vaccine?

Scientists at the UNC School of Medicine are working to develop a nanoparticle vaccine to protect against the four serotypes of dengue virus, which infects more than 350 million people across the globe each year...

15 November, 2016

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Scientists reveal how a common virus triggers blood cancer

Scientists at the University of Sussex, trying to uncover how the common Epstein-Barr virus causes blood cancer in adults and children, have discovered how the virus takes control of two genes involved in cancer...

14 November, 2016

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DNA-based Zika vaccine showed protection from infection, brain damage and death

Vaccination generated robust and protective antigen-specific antibody and T cell immune responses in preclinical animal models. As the global spread of the Zika virus continues, efforts are underway to halt the...

11 November, 2016

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IBM is developing a ‘super molecule’ to destroy all viruses

If you lined up everything alive on the planet today and counted them one-by-one, you’d find that viruses are the most common creatures by far. Pervasive, pathogenic varieties are notoriously hard to treat, as the...

7 November, 2016

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Deadly measles discovery stuns scientists

The virus stays dormant in the brain for years until it awakens causing seizures and coma with no survivors. Scientists have discovered a deadly complication with the measles virus that could potentially kill children...

1 November, 2016

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Consortium launched to fight Zika virus and build Latin American response capacity

Umeå University is among the 25 leading research and public health organizations from Latin America, North America, Africa, Asia, and Europe gathered in Recife, Brazil, for the launch of ZikaPLAN (Zika Preparedness...

31 October, 2016

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