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Meullenet, Proctor, Popp, Other Faculty Honored at Bumpers College Reception (University of Arkansas)

Edit Public Technologies 06 Oct 2016
(Source ... FAYETTEVILLE, Ark ... 22 ... 20-Year Award ... Byung-Whi Kong, functional genomics and molecular virologist, poultry science; Dennis Mason, instructor, poultry science; Ruben Morawicki, associate professor, food science; Jason Norsworthy, professor, crop, soil and environmental sciences; Andrew Sharpley, professor, crop, soil and environmental sciences; Kelly Way, associate professor, human nutrition and hospitality innovation ... 2016 ... 2015....

What New Zealanders need to know about bird flu: From the mutton bird to a cure for influenza (University of Otago)

Edit Public Technologies 04 Oct 2016
Robert Webster is a world-renowned virologist and leading influenza expert ... Born in Balclutha, Professor Webster studied microbiology at the University of Otago leading to a job with the New Zealand Department of Agriculture as a virologist ... Professor Webster is a noted virologist and international expert in influenza....

Stirling virologist at front line of research into Chikungunya virus (The University of Stirling)

Edit Public Technologies 04 Oct 2016
Virologist, Dr Manfred Weidmann, is the only British University scientist involved in a new international collaboration focused on developing a point-of-care detection method for immediate use in fighting the Chikungunya virus, a mosquito-borne virus currently transmitted in about 60 countries after having spread to the Americas in recent years....

HIV cure hope thanks to collaboration (University of Oxford)

Edit Public Technologies 04 Oct 2016
(Source. University of Oxford). The study involves activating 'sleeping' HIV-infected cells in the body - but researchers say it will take until the conclusion of the study in 2018 to know if there has been an effect on curing HIV ... CHERUB brings together, among others, clinicians, virologists, immunologists, molecular biologists and mathematical modellers under the umbrella of the NIHR ... (noodl. 35662774) ....

Zika vaccine race spurred by crisis and profit potential

Edit The Himalayan 04 Oct 2016
NEW YORK. The race to find protection against the Zika virus is fueled by something often missing from tropical disease research. the potential for big profit ... “It scares people,” said Scott Weaver, a virologist with the University of Texas and chairman of the Zika task force for the Global Virus Network. “Europeans and Americans can pay a pretty high price for these kinds of vaccines.” ... ZIKA’S DIFFERENCE ... ....

Searching for Ebola: Where is it hiding and when will it be back?

Edit CNN 04 Oct 2016
(CNN)There was a certain kind of quiet hopefulness when, in late April this year, the last Ebola patient of the West African epidemic -- a two-year-old boy -- walked out of a treatment facility in Monrovia, Liberia ... Ebola is still out there, lurking ... Read More ... Virologist Jens Kuhn of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland, has told Nature that he thinks bats live much too close to humans....

Scientists Design Potential Universal Flu Vaccine

Edit IFL Science 03 Oct 2016
Designs have been produced for two vaccines that should, in theory, provide immunity against almost all strains of the influenza virus ... “Epitope-based vaccines aren’t new, but most reports have no experimental validation ... Moreover, the predictions can be wrong. This year a quadrivalent vaccine (one protective against four strains) was hastily released after virologists became alarmed about a strain not included in the original vaccine ... ....

7 ways Zika can spread

Edit The Oklahoman 03 Oct 2016
During the past year, we have been learning a lot about the Zika virus. Scientific and medical research has produced a constant stream of new information about what the virus looks like and which diseases it can cause in infants and adults ... 1. Mosquito to man/woman. Virologists refer to viruses like Zika as arboviruses — which is to say viruses that are transmitted by insects (arbo = arthropod-borne) ... 2. Man to woman ... 3. Man to man ... 4 ... 5 ... 6 ... 7 ... ....

First Thai babies diagnosed with Zika-linked microcephaly

Edit Arabnews 01 Oct 2016
Author. . AFP. Sat, 2016-10-01. ID. . 1475265863843099700. BANGKOK. Thai health authorities on Friday said microcephaly in two babies was caused by the Zika virus, in what is believed to be Southeast Asia’s first confirmed cases linking the sickness and the birth defect ... Thai virologist Praset Thongcharoen said Friday that “4.3 infants per 100,000,” are born with microcephaly in Thailand, twice the global average ... World. ....

GUMC Launches Center for Global Health Science and Security (GUMC - Georgetown University Medical Center)

Edit Public Technologies 30 Sep 2016
(Source. GUMC - Georgetown University Medical Center). WASHINGTON (Sept ... The GHSS is led by Rebecca Katz, PhD, MPH, and Julie Fischer, PhD ... Healton, MD, MPH, executive vice president for health sciences and executive dean of the Georgetown School of Medicine ... 'We work with partners across the U.S ... Fischer, a microbiologist, and research team member Erin Sorrell, PhD, MSc, a virologist, join the department of microbiology and immunology....

Brenda Coutts says CGMMV has been found in the Ord Valley

Edit Australian Broadcasting Corporation 29 Sep 2016
Matt Brann speaks to plant virologist Brenda Coutts about the discovery of CGMMV in the Ord. READ MORE ... ....

Villette review – cloned Brontë heroine looks back from the future

Edit The Guardian 29 Sep 2016
2 / 5 stars. West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds. Charlotte Brontë’s intimate novel of doomed love is stripped of bonnets and reset as science fiction by Linda Marshall Griffiths. @lyngardner. Charlotte Brontë’s final novel – considered by many to be superior to the better-known Jane Eyre – was written in the wake of her sisters’ deaths ... Twitter ... Marshall Griffiths’s Lucy, a virologist, is even more of an outcast ... Twitter ... ....

Dengue, chikungunya cases in Valley

Edit The Himalayan 28 Sep 2016
Kathmandu, September 27. At least 20 people, including residents of Kathmandu Valley, have tested positive for dengue virus, according to National Public Health Laboratory. The government’s central laboratory has also confirmed that of the 499 samples, at least two, including a resident of Kathmandu, tested positive for chikungunya ... No one had a history of going outside the Valley,” said Dr Sher Bahadur Pun, a virologist at STIDH ... ....
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