hVIVO is the new name of Retroscreen Virology! (from 15 April 2015). hVIVO is a rapidly growing UK life sciences company pioneering a technology platform which uses human challenge models of disease involving healthy volunteers to study new drugs and investigate disease in a safe, controlled, clinical environment. Our belief is that the best way to understand human disease is by studying it in humans, not laboratory models.
Thursday 25 September 2014
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CABINET // Virus Camp
http://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/23/dillon.php
A brilliant website for a history of the Common Cold Unit
Posted by Rob LW
A brilliant website for a history of the Common Cold Unit
Posted by Rob LW
Thursday 18 September 2014
Tuesday 16 September 2014
Friday 12 September 2014
Virus Outbreak Sends 1,000 Kids To Hospital
Sky News US Team
A rare respiratory illness has sent more than 1,000 children
to hospital in cities across the US Midwest.
The symptoms experienced by the children are similar to
those of a common cold - coughing, difficulty breathing, with or without fever.
But those affected by Enterovirus 68 become seriously ill
within hours.
Other symptoms include runny nose, sneezing, cough, mouth
blisters, body and muscle aches and rash.
Experts say the current outbreak is spreading quickly.
According to USA Today, some 300 cases have been reported in
Kansas City, Missouri, while at Children's Hospital Colorado in Denver,
Colorado, some 900 kids have reportedly been admitted in the last two weeks.
In total, 10 states have reported outbreaks: Missouri,
Kansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Iowa, Colorado, Ohio, Oklahoma, North Carolina and
Georgia.
Experts fear the outbreak might get even worse, and are
asking parents to be on the lookout for symptoms.
There is no antiviral therapy or vaccine.
Nurse and infectious disease specialist Lisa Caffery said as
schools resume children are especially at risk of catching the virus.
"It's easily spread from person to person through
contact with respiratory secretions and so that's why children are probably
more at risk than adults, but adults can get it as well," she told
midwestern TV station WQAD.
Thanks
Rob
A mini-antibody with broad antiviral activity chews up viral DNA and RNA
A mini-antibody with broad antiviral activity chews up viral DNA and RNA
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140626172846.htm
Antibodies and their derivatives can protect plants and animals -- including humans -- against viruses. Members of this class of drugs are usually highly specific against components of a particular virus, and mutations in the virus that change these components can make them ineffective.
Posted by Rob LW
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140626172846.htm
Antibodies and their derivatives can protect plants and animals -- including humans -- against viruses. Members of this class of drugs are usually highly specific against components of a particular virus, and mutations in the virus that change these components can make them ineffective.
Posted by Rob LW
Sunday 7 September 2014
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