Hacker News with Generative AI: Virology

Does it matter whether SARS-CoV-2 leaked from a lab? (marginalrevolution.com)
Does it matter whether SARS-CoV-2 leaked from a lab in Wuhan or had natural zoonotic origins? I think on the margin it does matter.

Science, Biology, COVID-19, Virology, Origins

15 points by mhb 10 days ago | 7 comments

H5N1 influenza viral lineages beginning to evade human immunological defenses (medicalxpress.com)
New computational modeling of avian influenza variants' immunoprotein interactions—developed by a research team at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte—reveals the H5N1 influenza virus is evolving to escape immunological defenses raised by previous infection or vaccination in mammals.

Influenza, Virology, Immunology, Public Health, Computational Modeling

7 points by bikenaga 14 days ago | 0 comments

1993 Four Corners hantavirus outbreak (wikipedia.org)
The 1993 Four Corners hantavirus outbreak was an outbreak of hantavirus disease that occurred in the Four Corners region of the US states in Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico.

Outbreaks, Public Health, Virology, United States, History

6 points by ale42 67 days ago | 2 comments

Genetics of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Viruses ID'd in LA Person (cdc.gov)
CDC has sequenced the influenza viruses in specimens collected from the patient in Louisiana who was infected with, and became severely ill from HPAI A(H5N1) virus. The genomic sequences were compared to other HPAI A(H5N1) sequences from dairy cows, wild birds and poultry, as well as previous human cases and were identified as the D1.1 genotype.

Genetics, Avian Influenza, Public Health, Virology

4 points by rntn 95 days ago | 0 comments

Wuhan lab samples hold no close relatives to virus behind Covid (nature.com)
Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli has presented evidence that her lab has not worked with close relatives of SARS-CoV-2.

COVID-19, Science, Wuhan, China, Virology

44 points by rntn 116 days ago | 77 comments

Highly sensitive airborne virus monitoring: microfluidic cartridge for RIAMs (nature.com)
Highly sensitive airborne virus monitoring is critical for preventing and containing epidemics.

Science, Public Health, Virology, Microfluidics

5 points by btbuildem 173 days ago | 0 comments

Obelisks: A newly discovered viroid-like phylogenetic group in human microbiomes (biorxiv.org)
Here, we describe the “Obelisks,” a previously unrecognised class of viroid-like elements that we first identified in human gut metatranscriptomic data.

Microbiology, Genetics, Human Microbiome, Virology

7 points by arto 190 days ago | 0 comments

Evidence points to Wuhan market as source of Covid-19 outbreak (newscientist.com)
An analysis of genetic samples taken from the Huanan seafood market in Wuhan, China, has identified a shortlist of wild animals being sold there that were the most likely source of the virus that sparked the covid-19 pandemic.

Covid-19, Virology, Science, China

31 points by Jimmc414 194 days ago | 31 comments

The histamine receptor H1 acts as an alternative receptor for SARS-CoV-2 (journals.asm.org)

COVID-19, Virology, Medicine, Biology

6 points by zzzeek 270 days ago | 0 comments

Virologist who was first to share Covid genome sleeps on street after lab shuts (nature.com)

Virology, Science, Public Health, COVID-19

58 points by Brajeshwar 337 days ago | 29 comments