Obese mice with unhealthy lifestyles gain significantly less weight and avoid type 2 diabetes when they receive viruses transplanted from
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Viral peptides critical to natural HIV control: T-cell targeting of essential amino acids may underlie spontaneous HIV suppression, define path to a vaccine
Investigators at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard have used a novel approach to identify specific amino acids
Continue reading »Dengue research in the Philippines evolving over time
Communicable diseases including dengue continue to be major causes of morbidity and mortality in the Philippines. Now, researchers reporting in
Continue reading »New Bombali ebolavirus found in Kenyan bat: Evidence for a widespread virus reservoir in Africa
Researchers have identified Bombali ebolavirus in an Angolan free-tailed bat captured in the Taita Hills, southeast Kenya. No ebolaviruses have
Continue reading »2nd ever HIV patient in remission after stem cell transplant: Doctors
A man who previously tested positive for HIV has shown no trace of the virus that causes AIDS since receiving
Continue reading »Zika: Silent long-term circulation in Thailand
The circulation of the dengue virus for the past sixty years in South-East Asia is relatively well known. For Zika,
Continue reading »New insight on potent HIV antibody could improve vaccine design: Early mutation in neutralizing antibody gives it flexibility to adapt to virus’s changes
In the quest to develop an effective HIV vaccine, researchers have focused attention on identifying and targeting the region of
Continue reading »Bat influenza viruses could infect humans
Bats don’t only carry the deadly Ebola virus, but are also a reservoir for a new type of influenza virus.
Continue reading »Scientists discover Ebola virus in West African bat
The government of Liberia, in partnership with the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at the Columbia University Mailman School
Continue reading »Scientists getting ahead of Rift Valley fever after learning from Zika epidemic
The Zika virus epidemic of 2015 resulted in thousands of Brazilian babies being born with severe brain defects after the
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