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Although doctors maintain that flu shots are life-savers that everyone should receive, some researchers are uncovering hints that ‘serial vaccination’ — that is, consistently receiving annual flu shots — may in fact limit one’s...

EMBL-EBI bioinformatics collaborate with the London-based design company Science Practice to discover new scientific perspectivesSee it on Scoop.it, via Viruses and Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca Collaboration Is Beautiful | Bioinformatics meets graphic design Source: Viral...

true 340 340 float_right 340 float_right speach See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News New Lancet figures show vaccine could save 600,000 women's lives from cervical cancer Source: Virology News

In a move that could boost HPV vaccination rates, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday said younger adolescents need only two doses of the vaccine, rather than three as previously...

FAO Report Promotes Biotechnology as Key Tool in Facing Climate Change: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) released its annual report on The State of Food and Agriculture focusing on...

Two new studies raise the possibility that an adaptation to humans speeded up transmission Ed Rybicki’s insight:Whoops… See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News Has a new mutation in the Ebola virus made it...

Peter Piot spoke at WIRED2016 to explain how we can prepare for the next big virus outbreak Ed Rybicki’s insight:There is always a Big One coming. And there always will be. See it on...

A new approach has been developed to combat diseases caused by herpesvirus infections, including everything from cold sores to cancer. Researchers at the University of Leeds have discovered a way to prevent herpesviruses hijacking important...

J Virol. 2016 Oct 26. pii: JVI.01879-16. [Epub ahead of print] See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News A novel porcine circovirus is associated with porcine dermatitis and nephropathy syndrome  Source: Virology News

The collaboration builds on one launched over the summer by Sanofi Pasteur and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News Fiocruz Joins Sanofi-Walter Reed Zika Vaccine Collaboration ...