Figure 1: Global estimates of human mortality caused by vector-borne diseases. Historically, vector control has proven successful for disease control. For example, vector-control programmes ...

As a lab within the Cooperative Center of Excellence in Hematology (CCEH) at Fred Hutch, the Vector Production core assists investigators with the design, construction, and/or production of viral ...

This project builds on recent work reporting tick transmission of relapsing fever spirochetes and genome sequencing of both the pathogen and tick vector. We have utilized both next generation and ...

Lentiviruses have the unique ability amongst retroviruses of being able to infect non-cycling cells. Vectors derived from lentiviruses have provided a huge advancement in technology and seemingly ...

NOVOSIBIRSK, August 17. /TASS/. The Vector State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology in Novosibirsk has started the second phase of clinical studies of the vaccine against the novel ...

These prehistoric viruses are thought to be up to 400,000 years old and have remained dormant in the frozen remains of woolly mammoths found in Yakutia, Russia, where temperatures can plummet to -55C.