Robin Weiss, who has died aged 86, was a virologist who in 1984 led a team which identified CD4, a protein found on the ...
Scientist who established productive growth of HIV in an immortalised cell line, which led to the development of the UK’s first antibody test for the virus ...
Artificial intelligence capable of predicting viral evolution months before dangerous variants emerge, next-generation antivirals designed to overcome limitations of current COVID-19 therapies, and ...
Beyond both being viruses, HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 don't seem to have a lot in common. HIV-1 is a retrovirus that integrates ...
But for Rockefeller virologist Theodora Hatziioannou, the viruses have one very important thing in common: They both cause deadly pandemics. Hatziioannou is well known for her pioneering research on ...
Theodora Hatziioannou used her expertise on HIV-1 to gain insights into SARS-Co-V-2, and vice versa. The potential ...
Dr. Bishop shared a Nobel Prize with Harold Varmus for his work on cancer-causing genes called oncogenes. He later served as chancellor of UC San Francisco.
Nipah virus is a zoonotic virus. It usually transmits from animals to humans, though it can also spread between people or through contact with food containing the virus. Currently, human cases of ...
The New York City Department of Health confirmed the first case of a severe strain of the mpox virus, formerly known as monkeypox, in New York City. Health officials said Friday that the case is ...
A little-known virus that causes nasty flu-like symptoms is spreading in California — and it doesn’t have a vaccine. Cases of human metapneumovirus (HMPV) have been steadily rising since winter began, ...
Evidence suggests reactivations of the varicella-zoster virus may accelerate aging and raise dementia risk. Now scientists want to know if vaccines and antivirals could help protect the brain. In 2010 ...