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Environment Mar 6, 2023

Microscopic chalk discs in oceans play a key role in Earth's carbon cycle by propagating viruses

A Rutgers-led team of scientists studying virus-host interactions of a globally abundant, armor-plated marine algae, Emiliania huxleyi, has found that the circular, chalk plates the algae produce can act as catalysts for ...

Bio & Medicine Feb 28, 2023

Protein-based nanoparticles designed to neutralize the SARS-CoV2 virus

Nanomaterials inspired by amyloid proteins are gaining interest in nanotechnology, due to their modularity, controlled self-assembly and stability. A key advantage of these materials is the possibility of incorporating protein ...

Cell & Microbiology Feb 27, 2023

New method for the detection of RNA viruses such as SARS-CoV-2

Experts from the University of Barcelona, the Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC-CSIC), the Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona (IMB-CNM-CSIC) and the Aragon Nanoscience and Materials Institute of ...

Bio & Medicine Feb 16, 2023

Researchers develop a novel 2D material that uses a virus to kill cancer cells

Electro-thermal therapy, which involves applying electrical signals to nanomaterials, provides high cancer cell targeting accuracy and is highly bio-compatible. In this research, scientists from the Singapore University of ...

Biotechnology Feb 16, 2023

Vaccine to protect pigs from Japanese encephalitis virus

Scientists at The University of Queensland have developed a novel vaccine for Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) in pigs, to help stop the spread of the disease in Australia.

Biochemistry Feb 15, 2023

Detecting rapidly mutating bacteria and viruses with AutoPLP

As we now know from our experience with the COVID-19 pandemic, the microbes responsible for some infections can rapidly mutate into variants that evade detection and treatment.

Evolution Feb 14, 2023

Modified CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing system used to learn more about the evolution of giant viruses

A team of virologists at Aix–Marseille University, has found evidence that suggests the giant virus Pandoravirus neocaledonia evolved from smaller and simpler viruses. In their study, published in the journal Nature Communications, ...

Cell & Microbiology Feb 13, 2023

Taxonomy goes viral: Experts publish a new set of consensus principles to classify the virosphere

The official body charged with virus classification has released four new principles that bring order to the viral world. This provides a unified framework that will enable all viruses to be classified, something vitally ...

Plants & Animals Feb 6, 2023

New viruses infecting hibiscus plants on Oʻahu

Two new viruses are infecting hibiscus plants in Hawaiʻi and could pose a threat to the state flower, according to researchers in the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources. ...

Molecular & Computational biology Feb 6, 2023

Single test picks up all strains of deadly fish virus that threatens barramundi

Scientists at the University of Sydney in Australia and the University of Florida in the U.S. have developed a new genetic test for the infectious spleen and kidney necrosis virus (ISKNV) that is deadly in fish, affecting ...

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