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Nebraska-developed vaccine protects against swine, human and bird flu

May 12, 2025

Kai Waddell poses for a portrait at the Morrison Life Sciences Building on East Campus. Waddell is a Microbiology major and is set to graduate this May.

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Waddell found success — and balance — as an undergrad

May 9, 2025

University of Nebraska–Lincoln undergraduates (from left) Avery Marquis, Vanessa Hubing and Chanasei Ziemann pose in lab coats for a photo in Luwen Zhang’s campus lab. The students are first co-authors on two research papers published recently in the Journal of Medicine Virology. Their work explores how key immune systems have adapted over time.

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Nebraska undergrads uncover ancient secrets of human immunity

March 26, 2025

Qingsheng Li, Willa Cather Professor of biological sciences and a member of the Nebraska Center for Virology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, appears in his lab.

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Li advances work on HIV vaccine

October 29, 2024

two people in a greenhouse inspecting little plants in yellow cups

Mondal lab pioneers research into pest-borne viral infections of cereal crops

August 5, 2024

artistic image of viruses (mostly blue) on a red background

Registration open for Prem S. Paul Symposium in Virology

August 5, 2024

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Registration open for Prem S. Paul Symposium in Virology

August 5, 2024

A rendering of the Ebola virus

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Early experiments show Ebola-fighting potential of engineered bacteria

March 8, 2024

A team led by Eric Weaver, associate professor of biological sciences, has developed a robust vaccine against a strain of swine influenza. Framed by a model of nucleic acid proteins is (from left) Weaver; Matt Pekarek, a graduate student in the Weaver Lab; Cedric Wooledge, a technician with the Institutional Animal Care Program; David Steffen, with the Nebraska Veterinary Diagnostic Center; and Nicholas Jeanjaquet and Erika Petro-Turnquist, both doctoral students in the Weaver Lab. Not pictured is Hiep Vu,…

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Husker scientists closing in on long-lasting swine flu vaccine

June 6, 2023

Rendering of HIV

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New vaccine platform could ease development, delivery of virus-fighters

January 27, 2023

Halteria

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Eating viruses can power growth, reproduction of microorganism

January 3, 2023

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In 55 years: Van Etten explains exponential growth in research

November 18, 2021