Jun 18, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Scientists from the Netherlands, Vietnam and United Kingdom, reporting the journal mBio, have described a new cyclovirus in the viral family Circoviridae. Left...

Jun 15, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Researchers have engineered a new adeno-associated virus that could greatly expand gene therapy to help restore sight to patients with blinding diseases...

May 9, 2013 by News Staff

According to a new research headed by virologist Dr Edward Campbell from Loyola University Chicago, a protein called alpha-synuclein, known to be a key...

Apr 5, 2013 by News Staff

A team of researchers from the Yeshiva University’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile,...

Feb 28, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A new research led by Dr Kimberley Seed from the Tufts University School of Medicine provides the first evidence that bacteriophages – viruses that...

Feb 15, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

U.S. scientists led by Prof Genhong Cheng of the University of California Los Angeles have identified a natural protein with broad virus-fighting properties...

Nov 12, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A new method of gene identification that could increase the genetic information scientists hold on animals by up to 80 per cent has been discovered by...

Sep 14, 2012 by News Staff

A new study by a multinational team of scientists supports the idea that viruses are ancient living organisms and not inanimate molecular remnants run...