How vaccinia virus tricks the immune system to escape antiviral defences
Jonas Dutra Albarnaz and Geoffrey L Smith Researchers from the Department of Pathology and the Gurdon Institute have uncovered a new mechanism by which pathogenic viruses antagonise our immune defences. Using molecular mimicry, the protein F14 from vaccinia virus (VACV) disables the immune response to inflammatory signals...
Mayonnaise Miracle Babies
Ashley Moffett , Professor of Reproductive Immunology, has written a short-cut article in the London Review of Books on Mayonnaise Miracle Babies . In the article she writes about the development of immunosupressants and the problems of their use in women's reproductive health.
What do parasites and plants have in common?
First front cover Catherine Merrick, Associate Professor in Parasitology, recently designed and published her first front cover for Trends in Parasitology ( April 2021 issue ). It accompanies the article 'Hypnozoites in Plasmodium : do parasites parallel plants?’ . This article also appeared in a Trends special collection...
How herpes seizes proteins’ means of production
Scientists at Cambridge and EMBL Hamburg have helped to reveal how the herpes simplex virus hijacks human proteins The Graham and Crump group s at the University of Cambridge and the Svergun Group at EMBL Hamburg have discovered a mechanism by which the herpes simplex virus takes control of the molecular machinery of human...