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Absence of an approved EBV vaccine 61 years after discovery, with unnamed company candidates in testing.
A team reporting in Nature grew human lung organoids whose own memory T cells, once boosted, blunt a later SARS-CoV-2 infection with no lymph node present. It gives a human in vitro way to study how much recall immunity to respiratory viruses the lung mounts locally.
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NIH researchers report in Science Translational Medicine that Zika virions form and mature in cell culture using a truncated M fragment plus the envelope protein, without the pr domain and without the host cleavage step.
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Doses of Oxford's Bundibugyo vaccine were manufactured at record speed. The efficacy trials that would prove them need contact tracing in DRC communities where humanitarian workers are distrusted and attacked.
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In Nature Communications, Noam Stern-Ginossar's group reports that human cytomegalovirus goes active or dormant according to the dose a single cell takes up. Adding receptors to monocytes raised entry 15-fold.
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Epstein-Barr infects about 95 percent of people and causes roughly 2 percent of cancers worldwide. It is also now tied to multiple sclerosis, with no approved vaccine and no antiviral to test the link.
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