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A therapy candidate for fatal prion diseases turns off disease-causing gene

Broad Institute

Science (2024) Related content New gene delivery vehicle shows promise for human brain gene therapy My Quest to Cure Prion Disease — Before It’s Too Late | Sonia Vallabh | TED Prion diseases lead to rapid neurodegeneration and death and are caused by misshapen versions of the prion protein in the brain.

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Simple test for flu could improve diagnosis and surveillance

Broad Institute

Simple test for flu could improve diagnosis and surveillance By Allessandra DiCorato June 18, 2024 Breadcrumb Home Simple test for flu could improve diagnosis and surveillance A low-cost CRISPR-based paper strip test distinguishes between influenza types and can be reprogrammed to recognize different viruses including the H5N1 bird flu virus.

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Discovery and development of COVID?19 vaccine from laboratory to clinic

Chemical Biology and Drug Design

SARS-CoV-2 is responsible for the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) which is one of the most widespread and powerful infections affecting human lungs. WHO proclaimed the outbreak of the Ebola virus disease (EVD), in 2014 that killed hundreds of people in West Africa.

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A new viral surveillance system in West Africa is showing the world how to prevent the next pandemic

Broad Institute

He started to imagine how the deadly and contagious disease, if confirmed, might spread to half the city’s population. Eight of the 20 patients died, but the spread of the disease in Nigeria stopped there. Blood and urine samples from the man were waiting for Happi in his lab. Happi felt chilled. They called the idea Sentinel.

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Can Global Genomic Surveillance Forecast the Next Pandemic?

PLOS: DNA Science

That’s thanks to accelerated genome sequencing technologies, expanded laboratory capabilities, and interacting infrastructure on a global level. Had we grown complacent in a world freed from a list of once-deadly infectious diseases, thanks largely to vaccines and other public health measures? COVID clearly caught us off guard.

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Optimizing your ELISA Assays | BMG LABTECH

BMG Labtech

Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assays (ELISAs) are an essential technique in today’s laboratory with many applications in the life sciences. 1,2 Anton Schuurs and Bauke van Weemen at the research laboratories of NV Organon, Oss, the Netherlands developed a similar technique which was also published in 1971.

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Existing drug is shown to inhibit virus that causes COVID-19

The Pharma Data

The drug, which has undergone several clinical trials for human conditions but has not yet received approval to treat humans, inhibited the replication of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in human cell cultures and in a mouse model, leading to much lower viral loads. The research team, including scientists from the U.S.

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