Hacker News with Generative AI: Virology

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 40 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 58 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 62 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 138 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 204 days ago | 29 comments