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Nebraska discovery offers clues to why Zika became more dangerous

October 4, 2017

Microparticles

Particle offers promise for vaccine in pill form

April 11, 2017

HIV graphic

'On/off' switch brings researchers a step closer to HIV vaccine

March 29, 2017

James Van Etten

Van Etten looks back on half-century of science

March 24, 2017

Researchers ID target of immune system’s assault on heart

January 16, 2017

Copepod

Study: Predators can drive increase in virus populations

November 10, 2016

Hernan Garcia-Ruiz, assistant professor of plant pathology, has earned a $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study how plants identify viral RNAs that allow a virus to replicate.

$1.3M NIH grant to aid study of plants’ viral defense

September 14, 2016

Wenjin Fan, Qingsheng Li, Zhe Yuan and Guobin Kang.

Study confirms simian ancestors of HIV can infect human cells

July 22, 2016

A transmission electron micrograph of Zika virus. Virus particles are 40 nm in diameter with an outer envelope and an inner dense core.

Virologists consider response to Zika

January 28, 2016

Canceled: MU's Sadler to speak on scientific literacy

January 26, 2016

UNL alumna Alaine Knipes poses with schoolchildren during a 2014 trip to Haiti. As part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Knipes worked to help eliminate a mosquito-borne infection that has afflicted millions throughout the country.

UNL alumna traversing globe as CDC disease detective

November 16, 2015

University of Nebraska researchers (from left) James Van Etten, Irina Agarkova, Thomas Petro and David Dunigan co-authored a new study showing that a virus native to green algae can invade and likely replicate within the cells of mice.

Study shows algae virus can infiltrate mammalian cells

October 21, 2015