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Keeping up with Virus Taxonomy: viruses that cause cancer
April 10, 2025
Welcome back to another edition of ‘Keeping up with Virus Taxonomy’. For this edition, we’re taking a closer look at some viruses that are linked to cancers in their hosts and the families where they belong.
Some viruses hijack the host cells machinery to replicate. In order to do this, they insert their genetic code into that of the host cell. If this affects the host’s own genetic code, this may alter the normal functioning of the cell and steer it towards becoming cancerous.
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Microbe Talk: a miniseries for Annual Conference
April 7, 2025
Thank you to everyone who attended the Annual Coference 2025 in Liverpool. If the week has left you wanting more, or you were unable to make it this time, don't worry, as we've put together a special miniseries of podcasts featuring speakers from the programme.
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Keeping up with Virus Taxonomy: seasonal viruses
January 23, 2025
Welcome back to ‘Keeping up with Virus Taxonomy’ and the first edition of 2025! For this edition, we’ll be taking a look at families of viruses that make you say ‘there’s something going round at the moment’ — seasonal viruses.
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Keeping up with Virus Taxonomy: the latest ICTV profiles
November 25, 2024
For this edition of ‘Keeping up with Virus Taxonomy’, we thought we’d take a slightly different approach. Instead of bringing you a collection of families of viruses that infect fungi, or are transmitted by insects, we’re going to make sure you’re up to date with profiles that are hot off the press. So, let’s take a look at the latest ICTV profiles published in Journal of General Virology.
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The hidden viral world of dogs that hunt wildlife
October 17, 2024
Dickson Stuart Tayebwa and Tony Lawrence Goldberg take us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Viruses of free-roaming and hunting dogs in Uganda show elevated prevalence, richness and abundance across a gradient of contact with wildlife' published in Journal of General Virology.
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How long does immunity last?
October 16, 2024
Dr Kieran Dee takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Smallpox vaccination campaigns resulted in age-associated population cross-immunity against monkeypox virus' published in Journal of General Virology.
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Keeping up with Virus Taxonomy: virus families that are transmitted or maintained in insects
July 26, 2024
For this edition of 'Keeping up With Virus Taxonomy' we're looking at some interesting families that contain viruses that are transmitted or maintained in insects.
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Implementation of Next-Generation Sequencing-Based HIV Drug Resistance Testing: Enhancing Antiretroviral Treatment Monitoring and Public Health Outcomes
July 26, 2024
Gerald Mboowa and Stephen Kanyerezi give us an inside look at their latest publication 'HIV-DRIVES: HIV Drug Resistance Identification, Variant Evaluation, and Surveillance Pipeline' published in Access Microbiology.