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How promising is the new HIV vaccine being trialled in humans?: http://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2018-07-11/promising-new-hiv-vaccine-trialled-in-humans/998… See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News How promising is the new HIV vaccine being trialled in humans? Source: Virology News

The Baculoviridae, a family of insect-specific large DNA viruses, is widely used in both biotechnology and biological control. Its applied value stems from millions of years of evolution influenced by interactions with their hosts...

‘Vaccine’ has an etymology hiding in plain sight: it comes from the fact that the earliest one was derived from cowpox. The Latin word for ‘cow’ is ‘vaccinae,’ which was then used for later...

AbstractSummary. Studies on gene clusters proved to be an excellent source of information to understand genomes evolution and identifying specific metabolic paSee it on Scoop.it, via Viruses, Immunology & Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca ClusterScan: simple...

AbstractMotivation. Most methods for pairwise and multiple genome alignment use fast local homology search tools to identify anchor points, i.e. high-scoring lSee it on Scoop.it, via Viruses, Immunology & Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca Accurate multiple...

AbstractSummary. Kmer-db is a new tool for estimating evolutionary relationship on the basis of k-mers extracted from genomes or sequencing reads. Thanks to anSee it on Scoop.it, via Viruses, Immunology & Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca...

Type I interferon signaling drives the expression of hundreds of interferon-stimulated genes (ISGs) that are critical for host and cellular defense against viral infection. To identify ISGs that limit Zika virus infection, Li et...

Avian and human influenza A viruses alike have shown a capacity to use the eye as a portal of entry and cause ocular disease in human beings. However, whereas influenza viruses generally represent a...

SEATTLE — June 26, 2018 An HIV vaccine regimen tested in an early-phase clinical trial elicited robust immune responses that appeared to be stronger than those observed in a landmark 2009 study showing that...

Transbound Emerg Dis. 2018 Jun 7. doi: 10.1111/tbed.12918. [Epub ahead of print]See it on Scoop.it, via Viruses, Immunology & Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca Infection of pigs with African swine fever virus via ingestion of stable...