Drexel University researchers have reported a method to quickly identify and label mutated versions of the virus that causes COVID-19. Their preliminary analysis, using information from a global database of genetic information ...
Evolution
Apr 17, 2020
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A team of researchers from The Ohio State University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has found a host of ancient virus groups in ice cores taken from a Tibetan glacier. They have written a paper about their discovery ...
The current leading method to assess the presence of viruses and other biological markers of disease is effective but large and expensive. It is prohibitively difficult for use in many situations, especially due to certain ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 30, 2019
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Herpes viruses reactivate in more than half of crew aboard Space Shuttle and International Space Station missions, according to NASA research published in Frontiers in Microbiology. While only a small proportion develop symptoms, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 15, 2019
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During the Zika virus outbreak of 2015-16, public health officials scrambled to contain the epidemic and curb the pathogen's devastating effects on pregnant women. At the same time, scientists around the globe tried to understand ...
Biotechnology
Feb 4, 2019
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Every summer in Southern Germany, Austria and Switzerland, tons of brown trout perish. An interdisciplinary team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now discovered the culprit of the mysterious dying afflicting ...
Ecology
Nov 28, 2018
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Horses can become infected with influenza D.
Ecology
Feb 23, 2018
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A system composed of two different types of nanoparticles can be used to accurately, sensitively and quickly detect viruses.
Bio & Medicine
Apr 5, 2017
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with members from Italy, Australia, the U.S. and Japan has found that viruses are the main culprit in killing archaea in the deep sea. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, ...
Iowa State University veterinarians are refining a method of collecting diagnostic samples from swine that both pigs and producers are happy about – and all it requires is a little rope.
Plants & Animals
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