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Battling COVID-19; A New Model of Cytokine Release Syndrome

  Under certain circumstances in patients, the human immune system can spin out of control and become highly toxic, resulting in cytokine release syndrome (CRS). CRS has been observed in certain...

Top Tips on Selecting the “Best” Immunodeficient Mouse Model for Your Research

Immunodeficient mice are invaluable tools for immunology, infectious disease, oncology, hematopoietic, and regenerative medicine studies. They can serve as hosts for engraftment of mouse tumor...

Battling HIV with CRISPR

  The availability of combination antiretroviral therapies that inhibit HIV replication in cells and robustly reduce plasma viremia means that HIV infections are survivable rather than fatal....

Finally! Two mouse models to combat Zika virus

  The rapid spread of the Zika virus into the US from Central and South America has US Health Officials at the CDC sounding the alarm and lobbying congress for more funding to combat the spread...

Humanized NSG™ Mice for HIV Research

Infection with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is the underlying cause of AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome).  By 2014, nearly 37 million people worldwide were infected with HIV, and...

An Update: Trends in Ebola Research

   Although it has been over a year since the Ebola virus (EBOV) outbreak in West Africa, many survivors are still suffering from chronic virus infection as well as from the devastation of having...

Mouse Kidney Parvovirus: Here’s what you need to know

Researchers in Australia and North America have recently identified a novel parvovirus in laboratory mice: the Mouse Kidney Parvovirus (MKPV; Roediger B et al., 2018). A similar virus was...