A plant typically thought of as a disease instigator may hold the key to hindering future influenza illness. University of Nebraska–Lincoln virologist Eric Weaver is leading a new project interrogating the tobacco mosaic virus as a possible catalyst for developing a universal flu vaccine.
In the latest episode, Mary Jane Bruce speaks with Eric Weaver about his efforts to develop a universal flu vaccine and the world’s efforts to produce one for the novel coronavirus.
Nebraska researchers have implicated a leading suspect in two open medical cases: the common recurrence of multiple sclerosis and the fuzzy thread tying MS to mononucleosis.
Inspired by YouTube and the university’s Center for Transformative Teaching, Chad Brassil is putting marker to glass in an effort to make the remote teaching of biology more illustrative, comprehensible and personal.
By resurrecting its extinct ancestors, Husker biologists have helped show that a mutational two-step transformed an overly possessive biomolecule into the four-part, bloodstream-cruising transport that both embraces oxygen and knows how to let it go.
Findings from Nebraska's Anastasia Madsen and colleagues could help improve population estimates of elusive and endangered species.