The deadly flu virus is not just “for the birds” anymore. The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has just decreed that dairy cows must be tested for the ...

Because plant viruses aren’t really a threat to humans, the body’s immune system typically doesn’t treat them like one. In 2015, ...

A successful defensive response prevents the virus from spreading in the plant,” says Docent Kristiina Mäkinen from the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki. Viruses can hijack ...

Using a virus that grows in black-eyed pea plants, nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego developed a new treatment that could keep metastatic cancers at bay from the lungs. The ...

Plant viruses hijack the defense system of plants, but there might be a way to strike back. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2020 / 11 / 201103104721.htm.

In a study that could lead to new ways to prevent infection by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and similar organisms, Purdue University researchers have been able to genetically modify a plant ...

Warmer and wetter weather has been linked to higher rates of infection in an analysis of plant virus outbreaks across the world from 1984 to 2019. Close. Advertisement. Skip to content.

Foundation Plant Services is fundraising for a new screenhouse to further protect and make room for up to 2,000 more grape selections. The estimated cost is $3.6 million. “Leafroll virus-3 is a severe ...

Virus sample preparation. Plant leaves with the symptoms of viral infection were harvested 1 or 2 weeks after mechanical inoculation. Then, the viruses were purified from the infected leaves using ...

Oatly announced Tuesday that it has added climate-footprint labels to some of its plant-based dairy alternatives on U.S. shelves, a first for a major food brand. Four of its so-called Oatgurts are ...

A dose for dogs. To treat his canine patients, Hoopes typically injects 200 micrograms of virus-like particles—about three times the dose of a typical flu vaccine—directly into their tumors.