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HIV pushes the nuclear envelope to start an infection

Viruses need to be better understood. After all, the common cold deals misery to hundreds of millions of people every year, and the world stood still for almost a year waiting for a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2. Viruses are difficult to treat because they are simple,... click to read more

  • Cheryl Vanier | Adjunct Faculty at Touro University Nevada College of Medicine
  • Aurelio Lorico | Professor at Touro University Nevada College of Medicine
Views 1708
Reading time 4 min
published on Nov 17, 2023
New treatment options for Zika virus infection

The recent outbreak of the Zika virus in South America in 2015-2016 had devasting consequences, involving at least 200,000 human infections. The Zika virus mostly spreads among people through bites from infected mosquitoes, but can also spread through sexual transmission. The number of infections are... click to read more

  • Rachel P. M. Abrams | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
  • Avindra Nath | Senior Investigator at National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Views 3373
Reading time 3.5 min
published on Jun 2, 2021
How can a pathogen subvert honey bee social behaviors to increase its success?

Honey bees are important pollinators. However, like us, they can become hosts to many pathogens. As a social species living in enormous colonies, honey bees have evolved many behavioral defenses to deal with disease, for example changes in social contact. However, as new pathogens continue... click to read more

  • Amy C. Geffre | PhD Student at Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, California, USA
  • Adam G. Dolezal | Assistant Professor at Department of Entomology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States
Views 3580
Reading time 4 min
published on May 21, 2021
Coronaviruses: Contagious Beasts and Where to Find Them

First and foremost: viruses do not appear out of nowhere. They exist in nature moving from one hosting animal to another. Still, we don't realize their presence until they cross our way. For example, the first time a coronavirus was discovered was back in the... click to read more

  • Anatoly Kozlov | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Department of Genetics & Evolution, Section of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Views 7677
Reading time 4 min
published on Apr 3, 2020
Viruses are spilling over from managed honey bees to wild bumble bees

If you are a concerned environmentalist, or even a food-lover (bees produce every three bites of food you eat), you might have considered becoming a beekeeper to help "save the bees". For most, "bees" conjure up an image of a striped yellow and black insect,... click to read more

  • Samantha A. Alger | Assistant Research Professor at Biology Department, University of Vermont, Marsh Life Sciences, Burlington, VT, USA
Views 10346
Reading time 4 min
published on Mar 13, 2020