Viromics approaches for the study of viral diversity and ecology in microbiomes.

#Virology #Viromics #Phages #GenomeResolvedMetagenomics

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41576-025-00871-w

New review: A real-world thriller of hubris, pandemics, and biological weapons, Air-Borne brilliantly tells the complex and multifaceted history of aerobiology.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/07/23/book-review-air-borne-the-hidden-history-of-the-life-we-breathe/

#Aerobiology #Microbiology #Virology #Disease #Pandemics #PublicHealth #BiologicalWeapons #Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Scicomm @Carl_Zimmer @bookstodon

Zimmer delivers again! Review out soon on https://inquisitivebiologist.com

#Aerobiology #Microbiology #Virology #Disease #Pandemics #PublicHealth #BiologicalWeapons #Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Scicomm @Carl_Zimmer

Remember the plague? It's still around.

#Virology

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/pneumonic-plague-infections-in-modern-times-show-the-black-death-isnt-dead/

Ghosts of weather past? Impact of past and present weather-related factors on the seasonal questing activity of Ixodes ricinus nymphs in southwestern Finland | Parasites & Vectors

Földvári G. Life cycle and e…
#Finland #FI #Europe #Europa #EU #Abioticfactors #Entomology #finland #infectiousdiseases #Longitudinalstudy #Parasitology #Suomi #Temporaltickdynamics #ticks #Time-laggedeffects #TropicalMedicine #uutiset #VeterinaryMedicine/VeterinaryScience #Virology
https://www.europesays.com/2245769/

Gold Standard Gain-of-Function
#science #Virology
https://rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/gold-standard-gain-of-function

Pan-viral ORFs discovery using massively parallel ribosome profiling.

#Virology #RibosomeProfiling #MPRP #uORFS

https://www-science-org.csic.idm.oclc.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado6670

Don't miss the 2025 Computational Structural Virology Symposium

Aug 4 | 5–10pm CEST | on Zoom
Philippe Le Mercier will present "Structural Modeling Reveals Hidden Functions in Viral Proteins".
Register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdeDrRlQEHYPSWOLaWmETRahbaIdc9Rvbwpp8tgUuHPgwt6GA/viewform

Still time to contribute! Submit your abstract for a Flash Talk by 10 July:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf02RUIorvnkadhdIgG4xCyGhQ4lQAsZ_SI7bWn0lKUhiWZUg/viewform

Could the way a virus “writes” its genes reveal how—and when—it jumps hosts?

A codon usage-based approach for the stratification of Influenza A across recent spillovers. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2025.06.030

CSBJ: https://www.csbj.org/

The young virologists of the Société Francaise de Virologie #SFV are organising a live on feline virus .
#virology #feline #cats #disease @afmblab.bsky.social

https://www.europesays.com/us/4990/ Prevalence and genetic diversity of Babesia microti in rodents from central and southern Shanxi, China | Parasites & Vectors #Entomology #GeneticDiversity #Genetics #InfectiousDiseases #KobeType #NBabesiaMicrotin #Parasitology #Rodents #Science #TropicalMedicine #UnitedStates #UnitedStates #US #VeterinaryMedicine/VeterinaryScience #Virology

Virtual cells
https://udara.io/science/virtual-cells
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44295725

Friggin' cool ! A synthetic cell phage cycle ️ | bioRxiv
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114697081002977107

Friggin' cool ! A synthetic cell phage cycle ️ | bioRxiv
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.14.659709v1?rss=1

Congrats! EVA-AISBL is the only global research infrastructure dedicated to reference viral resources—collecting, characterizing, producing & distributing. A big step for sustainable virus research! Proud to be part of it. Kudos to all involved!

https://www.european-virus-archive.com/

How Zika Uses a Crucial Host Cell Process to Its Advantage

“Understanding these mechanisms is an important part of being prepared for emerging or reemerging viruses that cause infectious diseases," said said senior study author Professor Shan-Lu Liu.

EMViR: A dataset for #virus detection in electron microscopy images – ready for #AI

1,084 EM images of respiratory viruses from the #RKI, including segmentation masks.
Supports AI model development for object detection and classification.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10980686

Edit: peer reviewed papers consider this theory to be nonsense, the numbers have been massaged, the conclusions do not meet standards, and all in all, it appears as credible as the vaccine causes autism study.

So, #COVID-19.

These researches claim to bring receipts proving that it was a #bioengineered leak. I do not have the #virology experience or knowledge to be able to dispute or validate their claims. But I know a whole lot of people on mastodon are smarter than I when it comes to these things, so I give it to y’all. Conspiracy or science?

Opinions? (Yahoo link to avoid paywall). https://uk.news.yahoo.com/time-truth-covid-paper-don-045800163.html

Viruses are important causes of disease and death in humans worldwide — and understanding how viruses contribute to chronic disease is essential to developing preventive strategies.

That's where virologists are well-positioned to contribute, write Annual Review of Virology editors Terence S. Dermody and Julie K. Pfeiffer in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Read more: https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/guest-columns/2025/04/28/chronic-disease-maha-kennedy-virus-virologist-research/stories/202504280002 #Virology #ScienceMastodon

Curious about the world of viruses?
From the common cold to the powerful HIV, each virus plays a unique role in our ecosystem. Some can even help bacteria evolve! #Virology #ScienceFacts #Microbiology