Tagged: flu

The scientists tethered together two llama antibodies against influenza A and two against influenza B to create a “multidomain” antibody. With their Scripps Research colleagues, Ian Wilson and Professor Andrew Ward, PhD, led the...

The two experimental inhibitors studied by Petit, a UAB assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular genetics, are small molecules whose precise mechanism of action was unknown. The inhibitors target the function of a key...

The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), a global effort to sequence the genetic code, or genomes, of all 1.5 million known animal, plant, protozoan and fungal species on Earth, officially launched on 1 November) as...

Last year, a 26-year-old man receiving treatment for leukemia went to a Swiss hospital’s emergency room with a fever, a sore throat, and a cough, and was admitted. His condition worsened, and 17 days...

This acquisition will make the life of bioinformaticians easier, because they do not need to battle with long noisy versus short clean read arguments. Here are how things work in the world of biology.See...

DNA sequencing company Pacific Biosciences (PacBio) is being bought for $1.2bn by bigger rival Illumina, it was announced yesterday. The deal represents a 71% premium on yesterday’s closing price for PacBio, and is the...

An abiding challenge for our civilization is to treat each human being as an individual and to empower all people, regardless of what hand they are dealt from the deck of life. Compared with...

But first, Reich explains how the information carried in our genomes informs the deep history of humans, from “mitochondrial Eve,” to the human-specific mutations in a language gene (FOXP2), to the final nails in the coffin of the multiregional model of human evolution. He becomes most excited,...

With the decreasing cost of sequencing and the rapid developments in genomics technologies and protocols, the need for validated bioinformatics software that enables efficient large-scale data processing is growing. Here we present GenPipes, a...

Seasonal influenza vaccines elicit strain-specific immune responses designed to protect against circulating viruses. Because these vaccines often show limited efficacy, the search for a broadly protective seasonal vaccine remains a priority. Among different influenza...