A study led by UMass Chan Medical School researchers has demonstrated that a gene therapy to correct a mutation that causes ...

Brazilian researchers have developed a simple test that almost instantly tells whether a person has been exposed to any of ...

Bird flu has now spread to humans in a dozen states after public health officials confirmed an Ohio man had contracted the disease. The Mercer County farmworker had come into cont ...

There are no approved vaccines or treatments for Sudan virus disease, which has a 40–70% fatality rate. To curb the ongoing outbreak, Uganda has deployed—under a clinical trial setting—a vaccine ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted accelerated approval to Vimkunya™ (chikungunya vaccine, recombinant) for the prevention of disease caused by chikungunya virus (CHIKV) in individuals ...

The influenza A virus genome consists of eight segments of single-stranded, negative-sense viral RNA, which encode multiple ...

Recombinant quadrivalent influenza vaccine (RIV4) and standard egg-based quadrivalent inactivated IV (IIV4) show comparable effectiveness in reducing influenza-related hospitalization among older ...

Using this cis-activation strategy in primary cells and muscle, we have demonstrated an increase in transgene expression of more than 600-fold from a minimal simian virus 40 (SV40) promoter and an ...

Janet Mertz’s work with simian virus 40 DNA during her graduate years was pivotal for developing DNA recombination as we now know it. Berg was awarded one-half of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980 ...