You want to learn about metagenomics and virus discovery? Eddie Holmes will give a Semmelweis Seminar in Vienna on August 20th 2025. More information and registration here: semmelweisinstitute.ac.at/event/redefini… This may also be interesting for the International Union of Immunological Societies crowd since it is during the

New review paper from the influenza group Utrecht Virology Lab together with Mengying Liu and Erik de Vries on virion motility of sialoglycan-cleaving respiratory viruses through mucus and on cells in NPJ viruses Nature Portfolio doi.org/10.1038/s44298…

**a new "foundation model for bio" seems to be released every month - when will they actually impact drug discovery? ** the last 2 years has seen the release of a ton of foundation models for bio: - alphafold3 and related protein folding models for predicting structure -

New preprint available! We introduced PLANT, an AI predicting the antigenicity of seasonal influenza viruses based on HA sequences. PLANT enables the direct creation of antigenic maps from sequences, highlighting differences between virus strains. 1/n biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Have $10M and want to cure some diseases? It costs ~$1B to invent a new medicine…but $10M buys you Project Encore, to see if ANY existing drug might be repurposed for ~100 diseases that have no treatments. Contact me - be a hero for desperate patients! docs.google.com/document/d/1dM…

Hard to believe they had such innivative and modern designs in the Ice Age, and yet

Latest from us. Universal antiviral made! How? Transient gene therapy. Which genes? Only 10 suffice, out of thousands of antiviral host genes. How did we choose? Got inspired by patients and gene promoters. Read in detail 👇🏼 science.org/doi/abs/10.112…

Anyone interested in evidence based public health policy should read the resignation letters of the four CDC officials who have resigned. I shudder to think what is coming down the policy pipeline that would trigger 4 resignations and a firing.

🔍 Look the statistics in #France regarding to #mosquito borne #arboviruses notified by the end of Aug‼️ 🦠 228 #Chikungunya cases 🦠 15 #Dengue cases 🦠 15 #WestNile human infections 🦟 #VectorControl interventions are key to reduce risks of transmission ✔️

How A.I. can beat current methods for selecting the future strain for flu shots nature.com/articles/s4159…

Timeline by Andrea C. Love, PhD of mRNA vaccine technology going back decades Now we need to add 2025 - RFK Jr pulls funding for it, based on some social media posts by "influencers" claiming it's bad

Genome language models can generate new, high-fitness bacteriophages! Samuel King Claudia Driscoll @_david_li Daniel Guo Aditi Merchant Garyk Brixi Max Wilkinson Brian Hie

🚨 New study: H5N1 outbreak in 4 house cats near a dairy farm in California. With early care + oseltamivir, survival is possible and cats can keep strong antibodies months after recovery. 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.oneh…

🚨 4th human case of H10N3 bird flu: A young woman in China developed severe pneumonia + complications, but recovered after antiviral + intensive therapy. cell.com/med/fulltext/S…

Very cool study by Adinda Kok from her time in Rotterdam. Lucky to have her with our team in Utrecht now. nature.com/articles/s4158…

🔬 Four early career scientists from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine are leading research for future vaccines at #ESWI2025 on future vaccination strategies! 🪑 Chaired by Florian Krammer & ECR Yona Tugg. #Vaccines #EarlyCareerResearchers #ESWI2025 #InnovationInScience #Flu

🧬 Insights from #ESWI2025! Dr. Xander de Haan showed human respiroviruses preferentially bind 2-3Sia 🔑 but can also engage 2-6Sia via heteromultivalent binding 🫁 — explaining infection of the upper respiratory tract. #Virology

Blog - Preprint: A Divergent Betacoronavirus with a Functional Furin Cleavage Site in South American Bats, by Michael Coston flutrackers.com/forum/forum/in…

🌊 New preprint: Mammal-adapted H5N1 (B3.2) persists in South American seabirds and marine mammals, with repeated spillback into birds along the Patagonian coast. ⚠️ Highlights risk of new wildlife reservoirs and potential long-distance spread. researchsquare.com/article/rs-796…