Stuart's Science

A blog about science because it's a wonderful thing. No real theme, just topics I chose to write about because I understand them (biological science, mostly to do with viruses). I am a PhD student in Cell and Molecular biology, studying immune defence to viral entry, at University College London (credentials). Enjoy...

Tuesday, 1 March 2016

Fighting cancer with a virus of plants: it's not a load of bull

If I ask you to think of a virus, I’m going to guess you’ll land on one of Zika, Ebola, HIV, Influenza or maybe at a push, Rhinovirus, t...

Sunday, 31 January 2016

From nowhere to everywhere - Zika virus

It seems to have come out of nowhere, and spread like wildfire. A new virus is rampaging through Brazil and parts of the Americas, and c...

Monday, 20 July 2015

Hate mosquitoes, this work will help you avoid them

My two most recent posts to this blog have had an, admitted unplanned, theme of looking at viruses spread by Aedes mosquitos ( Dengue an...

Thursday, 25 June 2015

Chikungunya - don't be scared, but do know about it

Chikungunya virus and it's beautiful symmetry In my previous blog post I discussed advancements towards a vaccine against Dengue vir...

Tuesday, 9 June 2015

Maybe one less thing to worry about from a mosquito bite - prospects of a Dengue vaccine

Under the assumption that a majority of the readers of this blog are from the UK, I’m guessing not many have experienced, or even come acros...

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