Columbia University researchers who identified the first examples of transmissible cancers in mollusks have now identified three more examples of such maladies, affecting three bivalve species. “A few years ago, we only knew of two examples [of transmissible cancers]: in dogs and Tasmanian devils,” said Elizabeth Murchison of the University of Cambridge, U.K., who was not involved in the work. “Now, with five transmissible cancers in bivalves and the identification of a second transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils, perhaps these cancers are not as rare as we previously thought.”
The US Food and Drug Administration has green-lighted a Phase 1 clinical trial to assess the effects of a Zika vaccine codeveloped by researchers at Inovio Pharmaceuticals and elsewhere.
Mosquito bites can enhance viral replication through increased host inflammation, according to the results of a mouse study.
At the International Coral Reef Symposium held in Honolulu, Hawaii, researchers at Australia’s ARC ...
