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Solid dose vaccine protects pigs against virus | Edinburgh Infectious Diseases | Edinburgh Infectious Diseases October 2025: Researchers have shown that a solid dose vaccine is effective at protecting pigs against a virus and therefore is a practical alternative to conventional vaccine delivery.

Solid dose vaccine protects pigs against virus 🐷💊

Researchers have shown that a solid dose vaccine is effective at protecting pigs against a virus and is a practical alternative to conventional vaccine delivery.

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Study on effectiveness of a maternal RSV vaccine gets national and international attention | Edinburgh Infectious Diseases | Edinburgh Infectious Diseases September 2025: A recent study involving researchers from the Centre for Inflammation Research on the effectiveness of a maternal RSV vaccine has been cited in the House of Lords, the Sun Newspaper an...

Study on effectiveness of a maternal RSV vaccine gets national and international attention 🫃

A study on the effectiveness of a maternal RSV vaccine was cited in the House of Lords, The Sun and the UKHSA RSV vaccination promotion materials.

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Roslin Reels - The Roslin Institute's Professor Neil Mabbott talks about his team's work on boosting immunity against infection.

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Former PhD student wins the Alfred Wallace Award for significant contribution to the science of entomology | Edinburgh Infectious Diseases | Edinburgh Infectious Diseases September 2025: Dr Arun Prakash, a Darwin Trust PhD student, has been retrospectively awarded the prestigious award from the Royal Entomological Society for his 2021 thesis ''Immune Regulation Of Dise...

*Congratulations* to former Darwin Trust-funded PhD student Arun Prakash for being awarded the Alfred Russel Wallace award from @royentsoc.bsky.social for his PhD on #immune regulation of disease #tolerance and immune #priming in #Drosophila!

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Research Focus: From nematodes in Kenyan dairy calves to respiratory infections in mice | Edinburgh Infectious Diseases | Edinburgh Infectious Diseases August 2025: A collection of publication highlights from Edinburgh Infectious Diseases over the past month.

August Research Focus!

From nematodes in Kenyan dairy calves to respiratory infections in mice 🐄🐭

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Researchers have traced Cyprus’ 2023 deadly cat coronavirus outbreak to a hybrid of cat and dog coronaviruses. This is the first study that shows cross-species “mix and match” genes can form dangerous new strains in cats.

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World Health: The Magazine of the World Health Organization. May 1980. smallpox is dead!

#ThrowbackThursday: In 1980 the 🌍🌎🌏 was declared #smallpox free, thanks to mass vaccination efforts.

Smallpox was an acute contagious disease caused by the variola virus. It was one of the most devastating diseases known to humanity. #VaccinesWork

Development and characterization of monoclonal antibodies specific for bovine IP-10 - PubMed Research on chemokines in cattle is hampered by the relative lack of validated reagents. Bovine IP-10 is an important inflammatory chemokine and a promising diagnostic biomarker for an economically im...

Development and characterization of monoclonal antibodies specific for bovine IP-10

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40814003/

Amyloid-Beta Pathology Increases Synaptic Engulfment by Glia in Feline Cognitive Dysfunction Syndrome: A Naturally Occurring Model of Alzheimer's Disease - PubMed Feline cognitive dysfunction syndrome (CDS; a.k.a. feline dementia) is an age-related neurodegenerative disorder, comparable to dementia in people, characterised by behavioural changes such as increas...

Amyloid-Beta Pathology Increases Synaptic Engulfment by Glia in Feline Cognitive Dysfunction Syndrome: A Naturally Occurring Model of Alzheimer's Disease

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40790741/

Public health agencies need to be 'Kennedy ready': take action now to protect vaccine confidence - PubMed The Secretary of the US Department of Health & Human Services, Robert Kennedy Jr is leading a political agenda against vaccination. This is undermining the delivery of life-saving vaccination programm...

Public health agencies need to be 'Kennedy ready': take action now to protect vaccine confidence

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Fluorescence Characterization of Extracellular Vesicles Using Single-Molecule Confocal Microscopy - PubMed Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are small, membrane-bound particles released by cells into the extracellular environment. They play a pivotal role in cell communication and have recently gained prominenc...

Fluorescence Characterization of Extracellular Vesicles Using Single-Molecule Confocal Microscopy

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40820647/

Mast Cells Are Not Essential for Pubertal Mammary Gland Branching - PubMed Mast cells are long-lived, tissue-resident immune cells of the myeloid lineage with cardinal functions in allergy and atopic disease. They are now increasingly recognized also for protective roles, fo...

Mast Cells Are Not Essential for Pubertal Mammary Gland Branching

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40820378/

Footprints of Worldwide Adaptation in Structured Populations of Drosophila melanogaster Through the Expanded DEST 2.0 Genomic Resource - PubMed Large-scale genomic resources can place genetic variation into an ecologically informed context. To advance our understanding of the population genetics of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, we pr...

Footprints of Worldwide Adaptation in Structured Populations of Drosophila melanogaster Through the Expanded DEST 2.0 Genomic Resource

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40824865/

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An Hfq-dependent post-transcriptional mechanism fine tunes RecB expression in Escherichia coli

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40794102/

Mosquito feeding habits could influence disease spread 🦟

A recent study involving researchers from the Roslin Institute shows how feeding preference may sustain transmission of mosquito-borne viruses.

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Roslin Reels - The Roslin Institute's Professor Rowland Kao, CBE talks about his team's work on data and disease spread.

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Professor Gary Entrican receives Distinguished Veterinary Immunologist Award 🧪🎉

Many congratulations to Gary Entrican from @roslininstitute.bsky.social who has received the award at the 14th International Veterinary Immunology Symposium.

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A 'green' toolbox: non-chemotherapeutic approaches for gastrointestinal nematode control in ruminants - PubMed Grazing ruminants are commonly infected with gastrointestinal nematodes, and their negative impacts on animal health, welfare and production are intensified by increasing anthelmintic drug resistance....

A 'green' toolbox: non-chemotherapeutic approaches for gastrointestinal nematode control in ruminants

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40796422/

Associations Between Environmental Conditions and Infection With Respiratory Syncytial Virus in Japan: A Spatiotemporal Analysis - PubMed This study presents the relationships between environmental factors and RSV infections in Japan. Our framework could be applied to areas with similar RSV seasonality to further understand environmenta...

Associations Between Environmental Conditions and Infection With Respiratory Syncytial Virus in Japan: A Spatiotemporal Analysis

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40809393/

Understanding off-target growth defects introduced to influenza A virus by synonymous recoding - PubMed CpG dinucleotides are under-represented in the genomes of most RNA viruses. Synonymously increasing CpG content of a range of RNA virus genomes reliably causes replication defects due to the recogniti...

Understanding off-target growth defects introduced to influenza A virus by synonymous recoding

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40796271/

The ghost of infections past: Accounting for heterogeneity in individual infection history improves accuracy in epidemic forecasting - PubMed Variation in infection history is an important but often underappreciated driver of individual variability in responses to infections. Such individual heterogeneity in immune responses, stemming from ...

The ghost of infections past: Accounting for heterogeneity in individual infection history improves accuracy in epidemic forecasting

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40788849/

Emergency Medicine at the Frontline of Climate Change: The Role of Geographic Information Systems - PubMed Emergency Medicine at the Frontline of Climate Change: The Role of Geographic Information Systems

Emergency Medicine at the Frontline of Climate Change: The Role of Geographic Information Systems

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40794994/

SLAMseq reveals potential transfer of RNA from liver to kidney in the mouse - PubMed Extracellular RNA (exRNA) mediates intercellular communication in lower animals; whether it serves a signalling function in mammals is uncertain. Reductionist experiments, in which a single RNA is ove...

SLAMseq reveals potential transfer of RNA from liver to kidney in the mouse

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40789845/