2024-2025 WHO-Recommended Influenza Strains: Now Available at VRS
New season, new challenges. As the influenza landscape evolves each season, researchers face the ongoing challenge of staying current with emerging viral variants. VRS is pleased to announce the availability of the 2024-2025 WHO-recommended influenza vaccine strains,...
The mathematics of qRT-PCR in virology
Virologists spend an awful lot of time counting virus particles, in all sorts of ways, and for many sorts of reasons. But ‘not all that glitters is infectious’, when we’re counting virus particles. In the previous article, we focused on quantifying active viruses –...
Herpes Simplex Virus: Understanding HSV-1 and HSV-2
Many might know HSV only as the ‘kissing disease’, evoking memories of teenage romance and first kisses. But behind the nostalgia hides a virus that can be anything but romantic. HSV doesn’t just fade with time; it can flare up uninvited, bringing painful blisters,...
Nature’s solutions: Garlic
“For, let me tell you, he is known everywhere that men have been as a thing that is not of God… garlic is a charm; it is amongst the best things we have.” — Professor Van Helsing, in Bram Stoker’s Dracula Garlic keeps vampires at bay, and there’s...Page 1 of 30