Could bird flu spark the next pandemic - and are we prepared if it does?
Should we be worried about frequent news reports of flu being detected in birds and other animals?
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‘Ageing’ immune cell levels could predict how well we respond to vaccines
During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become clear that some patients are better protected by vaccination than others. Many studies have shown that SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are less effective in people with...
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Genetic variant linked to lower levels of HIV virus in people of African...
Reported today in Nature, this is the first new genetic variant related to HIV infection discovered in over 25 years of research. It could, in the future, help direct the development of new treatment...
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Treatments for poxviruses – including those causing mpox and smallpox – may...
Scientists studying how poxviruses evade natural defences in human cells have identified a new approach to treatment that may be more durable than current treatments. This follows their discovery of...
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Widely-used COVID-19 antiviral could be helping SARS-CoV-2 to evolve
The drug works by disrupting the virus’s genome, causing it to develop random mutations as it replicates, weakening the virus to prevent replication, thereby enabling clearance of infection. But in...
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New vaccine technology could protect from future viruses and variants
The vaccine antigen technology, developed by the University of Cambridge and spin-out DIOSynVax in early 2020, provided protection against all known variants of SARS-CoV-2 – the virus that causes...
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Vulnerability to different COVID-19 mutations depends on previous infections...
A new study has found that people differ in how vulnerable they are to different mutations in emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2. This is because the variant of SARS-CoV-2 a person was first exposed to...
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