Viruses are so varied and evolve so quickly that creating effective treatments against them becomes a daunting task.
Diagnosing malaria in the field with accurate and portable rapid tests
A new lab-on-chip technology enables the rapid and quantitative identification of malaria parasites in the blood for better and more accurate diagnosis in remote regions.
Mixing COVID-19 vaccines might boost immunity
Emerging data from trials exploring mixing different types of vaccines demonstrate the practice is safe and could boost immunity.
Faith Osier: “Throw yourself wholeheartedly into what you do”
With research groups spread over two continents, Osier is striving to eliminate malaria through her groundbreaking work in immunology, advocacy and awareness.
Pseudoviruses help determine the success of COVID-19 vaccines and antibody therapies
Assays using pseudoviruses have been indispensable in our efforts to halt the current pandemic.
What COVID-19 vaccine should I get? Whichever one you are offered, say experts
First and foremost, the goal is to keep people out of hospitals. The good news is all of the currently approved vaccines do just that.
Fluorescent nanodiamonds successfully injected into living cells
Fluorescent nano-sized diamonds give a better glimpse inside cells.
Scientists ‘farm’ natural killer cells in novel cancer fighting approach
Engineers and oncologists teamed up to develop a microfluidic chip capable of capturing the body’s natural killer immune cells to harvest their cancer-killing exosomes.
DeepMind solves 50-year-old challenge in predicting protein folding
Using their deep-learning program, AlphaFold, researchers predict the 3D structure of proteins using only their linear amino acid sequence, revolutionizing computational biology as we know it.
Grabbing viruses out of thin air
Developments in pathogen-detecting materials could provide an easy means of detecting viruses within public places.