The virus of the month: HCMV
The virus of the month: HCMV Human cytomegalovirus, what is it all about? Human Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a double stranded DNA virus of the Herpesviridae family with a high rate of dissemination in the human population. The virus has a broad tropism, gaining access to...
The virus, the vector and the microbiome
The virus, the vector and the microbiome If it has a digestive tract, it has microbiota Despite their often-negative billing as disease-causing germs, gut-living microbes are now recognized as a virtual “organ”. In anything with a digestive tract–from the tiniest...
Agent VP882, Licence to Kill
Replicate and destroy or hold fire?Viruses hijack host cells, which they force to produce thousands of identical copies of the original virus. Often, this forced-labor destroys the host cell, which is broken open (lysed), freeing the viral progeny to find and...
A(nother) systems-level approach against viruses
Dengue and Zika, why it’s good to compareDengue and Zika viruses have much in common. Both are vector-borne (mosquitoes) flaviviruses, they have similar life cycles, and we lack an effective vaccine against either. Nevertheless, dengue and Zika infections cause...Page 17 of 29