Can we stop the next pandemic by seeking out deadly viruses in the wild?
The dubious track record — and potential risks — of virus hunting, explained.
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The dubious track record — and potential risks — of virus hunting, explained.
Two strains of the bacterium causing tuberculosis have only minor genetic differences but attack the lungs in completely different fashion, according to Rutgers
Faculty from the Departments of Microbiology, Medicine Genetics and Genomic Sciences, and Pathology and Molecular Cell-Based Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai play key roles in a National Institutes of Health (NIH) program set up to provide a real-time risk assessment of variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The program, called SARS-CoV-2 Assessment of Viral Evolution (SAVE) and described in a paper published March 31 in Nature, assesses how the variants might affect transmission, virulence, and resistance to both disease-induced (convalescent) and vacci...
Program employs a coordinated approach and serves as a template for response against rapidly evolving pandemic pathogens
Human blood samples from across New England show evidence of Borrelia miyamotoi, a relative of the bacteria that causes ...