Researchers at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) developed a Multilevel Antimicrobial Polymer (MAP-1) coating shown to be effective in inactivating viruses. In efforts to...
In the continuing series on the COVID-19 outbreak, APBN takes a closer look at coronaviruses to help readers better understand the feverish pace of work undertaken by researchers and scientists in...
Funding round will support Emergex’s pipeline of set-point vaccines for infectious diseases. Based in the United Kingdom, Emergex is a biotechnology company that develops set-point vaccines to...
China has built a makeshift hospital in 10 days to combat the novel strain of coronavirus in Wuhan, the epicentre of the virus outbreak in central China's Hubei Province. Huoshenshan (Fire God...
Using Nanopore sequencing technology, scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences gain understanding of African Swine Fever Virus genome. African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV) causes one of the most...
The Nipah Virus International Conference 2019 co-hosted by Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS) and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) was held in Singapore from 9 to 10...
Photographs taken by Pearl Gan, invited lead photographer for a dengue photography project in Vietnam depicts the multi-faceted aspects of disease burden caused by dengue. Dengue, a zoonotic disease...
Researchers at the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) utilising travel surveillance and genomics have detected a large unreported Zika outbreak that occurred in Cuba during 2017, a year after Zika...
Clinical trial findings provide new insights to differential responses to flaviviral infections. A team of researchers from the SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medicine Centre’s Viral Research and...
New research uncovers previously unknown mechanism behind why some, but not all, Zika virus infections during pregnancy lead to fetal brain abnormalities. Some, but not all, Zika virus infections...
Collaboration to build global-standard platform for plasmid and virus manufacturing in China. A strategic alliance between pharma giant, Merck and Chinese biotech company, GenScript, aim to...
Chinese researchers say further work is necessary before clinical trials are possible. Chinese scientists have identified a new protein that restricts HIV infection, a discovery that could pave the...
