Autoantibodies Cause Lifelong Risk of Viral Infections

19-Jul-2024 - A new study shows that about two percent of the population develop autoantibodies against type 1 interferons, mostly later in life. This makes individuals more susceptible to viral diseases like COVID-19. The study, conducted by UZH researchers together with a USZ team, is based on an analysis of ...

The Route Into the Cell Influences the Outcome of Sars-Cov-2 Infection

A surface protein helps viruses to enter cells. This has far-reaching consequences for the infection

04-Jun-2024 - How exactly do Sars-Cov-2 particles enter host cells? An international team led by Dr Richard Brown from Dr Daniel Todt’s Computational Virology group at the Department of Molecular and Medical Virology at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, together with researchers from the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, ...

Hepatitis C Virus Infection: Discovery of Unexpected Proviral Effect of Guanylate-Binding Protein 1 (GBP1)

02-Apr-2024 - A research team from the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut has gained important insights into the role of the human guanylate-binding protein 1 (GBP1) in hepatitis C virus infection. Their results show that GBP1 performs a previously unknown function, that of a proviral factor, during the HCV life cycle. ...

The Largest Biotech City in Europe Will Soon Be Built

The entire BIO CITY complex will span an area equivalent to 10 football fields, total investment expected to reach around 7 billion euros

06-Dec-2023 - Northway Group is embarking on a project to establish Europe’s largest biotechnology hub, BIO CITY, in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. It includes 6 large biotechnological complexes – 4 state-of-the-art GMP manufacturing plants and 2 advanced scientific research centres – that will be built in ...

Decreasing biodiversity may promote spread of viruses

New insight into the dynamics of infectious disease

28-Sep-2023 - How are environmental changes, loss of biodiversity, and the spread of pathogens connected? The answer is a puzzle. Researchers from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have now described one piece of that puzzle in the journal eLife,* showing that the destruction of tropical rainforests harms ...

New infection mechanism in coronavirus discovered

Results provide starting point for development of antiviral therapies

20-Jul-2023 - The SARS-coronavirus-2, responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, triggers a stress response in infected cells that facilitates the virus' entry into the cells. In their search for the underlying molecular mechanism, researchers from the Heidelberg University Medical School and Heidelberg University ...

Copper is effective against Sars-Cov-2 on surfaces – silver is not

Silver nanopatches leave the virus unimpressed

09-May-2022 - Copper and silver are known for their antibacterial properties. Researchers from Bochum have explored their effectiveness against viruses. Silver and copper ions wipe out many pathogens. That’s why implants and medical instruments, for example, are coated with these metals. Researchers from ...

No particular risk of infection of Sars-Cov-2 by cash

For fear of contagion, the pandemic is much more cashless payments

02-Aug-2021 - How long do Sars coronaviruses remain infectious on banknotes and coins? Is it possible to become infected through contact with cash? This is the question that experts from the European Central Bank, in collaboration with the Department of Medical and Molecular Virology at the Ruhr-Universität ...

Team of researchers in Vienna has decoded the structure of the ribonucleoprotein (RNP) of rabies virus

02-Aug-2019 - A research team of the Institute of Virology of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna has achieved a major breakthrough in exploring the rabies virus: for the first time, researchers were able to exactly depict the structure of the RNP of this virus that is highly dangerous to terrestrial ...

Gaining control over soft-molecule synthesis

16-Jan-2019 - By gaining control over shape, size and composition during synthetic molecule assembly, researchers can begin to probe how these factors influence the function of soft materials. Finding these answers could help advance virology, drug delivery development and the creation of new materials. "We ...