WIKIMEDIA, CDCAs global health officials work to reach their polio eradication goals, new biosafety regulations for laboratories handling type 2 poliovirus mean some groups will cease working on the pathogen.
“There’s a growing sense in [the] picornavirus community that all research on poliovirus should not stop. We should maintain some research,” said Kurt Gustin, a virologist at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Phoenix who studies host-pathogen interactions.
While it could mean a shift in her own research, Boston University virologist Esther Bullitt, who studies proteins involved in poliovirus replication, told The Scientist that it is justified. “The fact that poliovirus will be eradicated will be worth what it takes to make that happen.”
UCSF, TIFFANY SCHARSCHIMDTRegulatory T cells are key for the establishment of the skin microbiome, according to a mouse study published in Immunity this week (November 17). Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, found that tolerance to skin-dwelling commensal microbes was apparent only during the first weeks of an animal’s life.
“The authors . . . prove that the skin develops tolerance to [a skin ...
