Think search and rescue animal, and you’re likely to picture a dog. But researchers want you to imagine something else: the African giant pouched rat. #ScienceMagArchives scim.ag/41jXFGG

World Health Organization (WHO) experts and #DRC rapid response team have been traversing vast distances to reach Panzi, a community located over 700 km from the capital Kinshasa, to investigate the cause of an undiagnosed disease and work with the local health authorities to reinforce and accelerate

🤩 Wow! Congratulations to ITM alumnus Placide Mbala, named in Nature's 10 as one of the most influential people in science in 2024! This is a well-deserved recognition of his tireless commitment to mpox research 👏 Read more about his impactful work: nature.com/articles/d4158…

Uncovering evidence of intestinal parasites in a 500-year-old latrine from Bruges, Belgium yields some of the earliest evidence of #schistosomiasis outside its endemic region of Africa, with Marissa Ledger McMaster University tinyurl.com/xepkpdb5

We’re recruiting a PhD student to use comparative omics to investigate why some viruses can efficiently infect both human and mosquito cells, but lead to different infection outcomes. Fully funded position by EvoMG Program at UPF-CRG with the Molecular Virology lab. crg.eu/en/content/tra…

New preprint: “Using the golden hamster as a model, we provide further evidence that #SARS-CoV-2 is neuroinvasive and can persist in the central nervous system, as we found viral RNA and replicative #virus in the brainstem after 80 days of infection.” biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Today is the International Day of Epidemic Preparedness—a reminder of the need for global collaboration to strengthen our defences against health threats. 🌍 Effective preparedness is key to building resilient health systems and ensuring our world is better able to prevent and

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is the leading cause of infectious birth defects and linked to many other morbidities such as transplantation. For the first time in over 50 years of pursuit, a vaccine is in reach jci.org/articles/view/…

Would love feedback on a new NCBI-BLAST service we are launching today: sky-blast.com It's the same BLAST executable and DBs provided by NCBI with a replica of the NIH's interface - providing an alternative to US gov service that's less congested, faster & more reliable

A hundred and fifty of the top virologists in the world meet in Geneva to continue advancing global health in this time of threat to public health in the world.

It's beyond ridiculous that one of TWO BSL4 (highest security) labs in the USA & World Reference Centre for Emerging Viruses and Arboviruses has had funding cut by Trump & DOGE because it had a COVID component. We are actively throwing valuable & critical science in the trash.

Ft. Detrick is home to 60% of our nation's Biosafety Level 4 testing with labs and the world’s leading scientists - all designed to handle the most dangerous and deadly pathogens. They have played a critical role in mitigating some of our world’s most devastating epidemics,