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Soft Matter. 2017 Dec 8. doi: 10.1039/c7sm02012k. [Epub ahead of print] See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News Templated co-assembly into nanorods of polyanions and artificial virus capsid proteins Source: Virology News

The World Health Organization’s most recent data on global deaths has good news for the African continent, including fewer people dying of HIV/AIDS and malaria. See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News HIV/AIDS is...

In 1981, R. Edgar Hope-Simpson proposed that a ‘seasonal stimulus’ intimately associated with solar radiation explained the remarkable seasonality of epidemic influenza. Solar radiation triggers robust seasonal vitamin D production i See it on...

Glioblastoma is a highly lethal brain cancer that frequently recurs in proximity to the original resection cavity. We explored the use of oncolytic virus therapy against glioblastoma with Zika virus (ZIKV), a flavivirus that...

Correspondence from The New England Journal of Medicine — An Early American Smallpox Vaccine Based on HorsepoxSee it on Scoop.it, via Viruses, Immunology & Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca An Early American Smallpox Vaccine Based on...

The history of life is punctuated by evolutionary transitions which engender emergence of new levels of biological organization that involves selection acting at increasingly complex ensembles of biological entities. Major evolutionary transitions includSee it...

Abundant bioinformatics resources are available for the study of complex microbial metagenomes, however their utility in viral metagenomics is limited. HoloVir is a robust and flexible data analysis pipeline that provides an optimised and...

Front Microbiol. 2017 Nov 17;8:2196. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.02196. eCollection 2017.See it on Scoop.it, via Viruses, Immunology & Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca Suppression of Poxvirus Replication by Resveratrol. – PubMed – NCBI Source: Viral Bioinformatics

The World Health Organisation recently declared the end of the most recent outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). By the time the outbreak was contained, eight people had been infected....

The strain of avian influenza detected in wild and domestic birds in Uganda recently is the same virus that has spread through Asia and Europe over the past four months. Revealed as the H5N8...