Zika
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Despite not getting the headlines it did last year, Zika remains an ongoing issue that needs addressing. A team from Sandia National Laboratories has developed a low-cost, portable device for quickly detecting Zika and similar viruses in a sample, driven by a smartphone app.
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Scientists have discovered a Zika antibody that can potentially protect developing fetuses, probably the number-one victim of the disease.
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With the number of Zika infections in Florida on the rise and real concerns of the virus spreading to other parts of the country, governments are on the lookout for inventive ways to ramp up the response.
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An inexpensive new device created by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania uses genetic material instead of antibodies to detect the Zika virus.
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The Golden Goose Award honors federally funded scientific research that might seem "silly, odd, or obscure when first conducted, but has resulted in significant benefits to society." In this case of this year's winner, those benefits extend to battling the bugs that spread the Zika virus.
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The US Food and Drug Administration has just approved the the first human trials of an experimental Zika virus vaccine, with the first subjects to receive their doses in the coming weeks.
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IBM's World Community Grid is a program that links the processing power of the phones, tablets and computers of ordinary citizens to tackle world health problems like tuberculosis. To date the program has supported 27 different research projects and it's now setting its sights on the Zika virus.