Tagged: flu

The recent shift of computational biologists from bioinformatics service providers to leaders of cutting-edge programs highlights the accompanying cultural and conceptual changes that should be implemented by funding bodies and academic institutions.See it on...

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Nov. 29, 2017) – A decade of data on hundreds of boys and girls who received the HPV vaccine indicates the vaccine is safe .....

Fewer than half of Russians with HIV are taking antiretrovirals, in part because of a conspiracy theory that the virus is a myth invented by the West See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News...

Women will need the test for the human papillomavirus (HPV) every five years rather than a pap smear every two years See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News Australia's new cervical cancer test 'much...

The way the flu season has gone in Australia dos not bode well for us in North America. Our flu vaccine is not that effective against the type of strains that predominated down under....

Japanese doctor wins global Maddox prize for standing up for science in the face of a lawsuit, media blacklisting and other harassment by anti-vaccine activists. See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News Japanese doctor...

I recently attended (and live-tweeted) an integrative medicine conference called “Get Your Life Back NOW!” held in Orlando, FL on November 3-4, 2017. There were actually three separate but related …See it on Scoop.it,...

Image from flickr user wonderlane I’d like to share the details of a recent survey conducted by Nick Loman and Thomas Connor that tried to understand current issues with bioinformatics practice and training. The...

DNA fingerprinting by portable nanopore sequencing is a novel re-identification method with applications in (clinical) laboratories and biobanks.See it on Scoop.it, via Viruses, Immunology & Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca Rapid re-identification of human samples using...

Revolutionary new treatments depend on tailor-made viruses, but laboratories cannot make them fast enough.See it on Scoop.it, via Viruses, Immunology & Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca Gene Therapy Hits a Peculiar Roadblock: A Virus Shortage Source:...