🦠✨ What do viruses need to reproduce? ✨🦠 #viruses #virology #virologist #biology ... Continue to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KymnmC4ZU6g

#OnThisDay #Helium was discovered (1868) by French #Astronomer Jules Janssen during a total solar eclipse in Guntur, India.

Birth Anniversary of French #Virologist Luc Montagnier (1932). He received #NobelPrize for discovery of human immunodeficiency virus (#HIV).

Happy Birthday #Actor Robert Redford (1936).

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The new #Covid #variant NB.1.8.1 is driving infections in #Australia. A #virologist explains what you need to know.

The evidence so far suggests NB.1.8.1 may spread more easily and may partially sidestep #immunity from prior infections or #vaccination. These factors could explain its rise in sequencing data. #auspol #CovidIsNotOver

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/30/new-covid-variant-australia-nb181

The new Covid variant NB.1.8.1 is driving infections in Australia. A virologist explains what you need to know

Evidence so far suggests NB.1.8.1 may spread more easily and partially sidestep immunity from prior infections or vaccination

The Guardian

#NEJM #Outbreaks #Update#H5N1, https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2502267?query=TOC&cid=DM2392650_Non_Subscriber&bid=-1425531110

In this NEJM Outbreaks Update, Editor-in-Chief Eric #Rubin and Deputy Editor Lindsey Baden are joined by veterinarian and #virologist Yoshihiro #Kawaoka to discuss avian influenza and its current impact on chickens, cows, cats, and humans.

Lovely Mastodon peeps! Do I know any virologists here?

(Or are there any who *don’t* know me yet, but would be up for chatting briefly? It’s background for a project, and I would be really grateful, and of course credit you.)

Thank you!

#virology #virologist #virologists #virus #LoveVirology #

"“What I want to emphasize about this #vaccine strategy is that it is broad,” said UCR #virologist & paper author Rong Hai. “It is broadly applicable to any number of #viruses, broadly effective against any variant of a #virus, & safe for a broad spectrum of people. This could be the universal vaccine that we have been looking for.”

The new vaccine... relies on small, silencing RNA molecules"
https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2024/04/15/vaccine-breakthrough-means-no-more-chasing-strains

#Health #Science #Vaccines #Vaccination #Flu #COVID #Covid19 #News #NoPaywall

Vaccine breakthrough means no more chasing strains

Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the immunocompromised.

News

Why Isn’t There a #Vaccine for the Common #Cold? A #Virologist Reveals the Hidden Reason

https://www.inverse.com/health/vaccine-common-cold-virologist-rhinoviruses

Why Isn’t There a Vaccine for the Common Cold? A Virologist Reveals the Hidden Reason

If we can create a vaccine for a novel virus in under a year, what’s stopping scientists from inoculating us against the sniffles?

Inverse

#OnThisDay #Helium was discovered (1868) by French #Astronomer Jules Janssen during a total solar eclipse in Guntur, India.

Birth Anniversary of French #Virologist Luc Montagnier (1932). He received #NobelPrize for discovery of human immunodeficiency virus (#HIV).

Happy Birthday #Actor Robert Redford (1936).

https://knowledgezone.co.in/news

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Hi again #Mastodon!
I joined the fediverse when a lot of my community had not migrated from the bird site, so could only partially reconstruct it here using automated tools. If I followed you there and don’t here, say hi and let’s reconnect!

For those who don’t know me, I am a #virologist by training with almost 20 years of experience as a #science #editor, a passion for #microbiology and all science really, #OpenScience #openaccess & people

Have a lovely day everyone

#introduction #fediverse

At the end of May, #NewYorkTimes reporter Emily Anthes accompanied #StJude #virologists on their yearly trek to #DelawareBay in #NewJersey to document their collection of #birdpoop. #Virologist Dr. Robert Webster, now St. Jude emeritus faculty, started going to the area in 1985. “Delaware Bay has turned into an influenza gold mine,” he says. “And we will continue to mine that gold mine until we’ve found the answers.” Follow their journey. http://bit.ly/3IVn1AA #FluResearch
For These Bird Flu Researchers, Work Is a Day at the Very ‘Icky’ Beach

The H5N1 virus poses “a great unknown threat” to birds and humans alike. Understanding and thwarting it begins with excrement collection.

The New York Times