Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch have achieved success with a new vaccine developed to fight Lassa Virus, a pathogen that causes Lassa fever. Lassa fever is lethal in humans and ...

GALVESTON, TEXAS -- In a new study, researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch show that a new vaccine developed to fight Lassa Virus, a pathogen that causes Lassa fever, provides rapid ...

Patients were taken to the canteen of a hospital in Bangkok. — © AFP Montira RUNGJIRAJITTRANON Patients were taken to the canteen of a hospital in Bangkok ...

Researchers report the results of the first ever genome-wide association study (GWAS) of a biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) virus. The team found two key human genetic factors that could help explain why ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IAVI, a nonprofit scientific research organization, announces that volunteers at the PREVAIL clinical trial site at Redemption Hospital (RH 1) in Monrovia, Liberia, have ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CEPI is funding a $14.9 million project to develop Nipah virus and Lassa fever rapid tests to better identify ...

This month’s story comes from the Bloom lab using their signature deep mutational scanning technique to identify mutations in the surface protein of Lassa virus -called glycoprotein- that escape ...

A case of Lassa fever has been reported in Paris, France, sparking lurid warnings about the “horrific Ebola-like bug”. As the name suggests, Lassa fever causes a high temperature, but also weakness, ...

A single-dose vaccine offers fast protection against illness caused by the dangerous pathogen Lassa virus, according to research in monkeys 1. Lassa virus infects hundreds of thousands of people ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The candidate vaccine is based on a modified, weakened rabies virus vaccine. There are no approved vaccines or ...

While combing through the human genome in 2007, computational geneticist Pardis Sabeti made a discovery that would transform her research career. As a then-postdoctoral fellow at the Broad Institute ...