Fc receptors in antibody-dependent enhancement of viral infections – Taylor – 2015 – Immunological Reviews – Wiley Online Library
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Vaccination evokes gender-dependent protection against tularemia infection in C57BL/6Tac mice
Highlights • Gender bias is demonstrated in vaccination and protection against Ft challenge. • Following vaccination, female mice are better protected than male mice. • Ab, cytokine, and bacterial clearance studies are consistent with...
ZBP1/DAI is an innate sensor of influenza virus triggering the NLRP3 inflammasome and programmed cell death pathways
People infected with influenza get sick not only because of the presence of virus but also because of the inflammatory immune response. Now, Kuriakose et al . report that the protein ZBP1/DAI (Z-DNA binding...
Analysis of cis and trans Requirements for DNA Replication at the Right-End Hairpin of the Human Bocavirus 1 Genome
IMPORTANCE Human bocavirus 1 (HBoV1) causes acute respiratory tract infections in young children. The duplex HBoV1 genome replicates in HEK293 cells and produces progeny virions that are infectious in well-differentiated airway epithelial cells. A...
Scientists Have Developed a Flu Strain Capable of Evading Your Immune System – VICE News
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Scientists Have Developed a Flu Strain Capable of Evading Your Immune System
VICE News
Such “antigenic escape” studies have been performed routinely in virology labs for 30 years.
Source: news.vice.com
Good example of how an article can induce panic in the general public, while the goal of the research is understandable.
