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Bad hare day: New organoids boost pest rabbit control
September 21, 2023
Ian Dewar, Communication Advisor, Health & Bio Comms at Australia's National Science Agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) takes us through 'Hepatobiliary organoids derived from leporids support the replication of hepatotropic lagoviruses' published in Journal of General Virology.
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Keeping up With Virus Taxonomy: dsDNA genomes
September 15, 2023
Welcome back to Keeping up With Virus Taxonomy. The ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profiles of Simuloviridae and Poxviridae were both published in the Journal of General Virology this year, but that’s not the only thing they have in common: their genomes are both in the form of double stranded deoxyribonucleic acid or dsDNA. Let’s take a look at them and some other viruses whose genomes are in this structure for this edition of ‘Keeping up With Virus Taxonomy’.
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Keeping up with virus taxonomy: viruses that infect bacteria
July 18, 2023
Way back in the February instalment of Keeping up With Virus Taxonomy, we looked into viruses that infect fungi... So it’s about time we looked into viruses that infect bacteria. Otherwise known as bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria are composed of proteins and a DNA or RNA genome that can be very simple, containing four genes, or complex, with hundreds of genes. You can learn more about phages here.
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How do you vaccinate against a master of immune evasion?
June 14, 2023
Matthew Reeves takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'A temperature-dependent virus-binding assay reveals the presence of neutralizing antibodies in human cytomegalovirus gB vaccine recipients’ sera' published in Journal of General Virology.
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Keeping up with Virus Taxonomy: Viruses that cause viral haemorrhagic fevers
May 15, 2023
In our last instalment of ‘Keeping up with virus taxonomy’ we explored the little-known viruses that infect fungi. For this new instalment we will explore some of the distinct virus families that many of you will have heard of; viruses that cause haemorrhagic fevers in humans.
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Keeping up with virus taxonomy: viruses that infect fungi
February 28, 2023
It’s time for the third installment of the ‘Keeping up with virus taxonomy’ blog series. This month we are looking at families of viruses that infect fungi – mycoviruses.
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Keeping up with virus taxonomy: reverse-transcribing viruses
December 14, 2022
In the second instalment of the relaunched ‘Keeping up with virus taxonomy’ blog series, we look at viruses that use reverse transcription to replicate.
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Keeping up with virus taxonomy: viruses spread by vectors
October 19, 2022
The ‘Keeping up with virus taxonomy’ blog series returns! In the first post of the renewed series, we look at a range of viruses that are spread by vectors.
