Virus article list

Ultra-small influenza virus detection sensor won the Industry-Academia Collaboration Award at the International Nanotechnology Exhibition

 The industry-academia collaboration team consisting of Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Osaka University, Chubu University, Kagawa University, and Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine is one of the largest in the world regarding nanotechnology […]

Proving the existence of a large number of asymptomatic norovirus-infected persons in Indonesia Kobe University et al.

 A research group at Kobe University and the National Institute of Infectious Diseases found that norovirus was found at a high rate in the stools of healthy volunteers (asymptomatic) in Indonesia […].

Amenamevir, a treatment for herpes zoster developed by Toyama University and others, is now on sale with the world's first approval.

 Professor Kimiyasu Shiraki and his colleagues at the Department of Virology, University of Toyama School of Medicine were involved in the development of a new therapeutic agent for herpes zoster, Amenamevir.

Japanese technology contributes to measures against Ebola virus disease in Congo Hokkaido University and others

 "Ebola […]" jointly developed by Professor Ayato Takada of Hokkaido University Zoonotic Infectious Diseases Research Center and Denka Seiken Co., Ltd. on May 2017, 5.

Osaka University succeeds in artificial synthesis of rotavirus for the first time in the world

 The research group of Yuta Kanai (full-time) and Associate Professor Go Kobayashi of the Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University is the first in the world to artificially synthesize rotavirus […].

Discovered host proteins involved in the intercellular transmission of AIDS virus Yokohama City University, etc.

 A research group led by Professor Akihide Liang and Assistant Professor Kei Miyagawa of Yokohama City University found that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS, is efficient in the body […]

Okayama University develops technology to selectively transport oncolytic virus preparations to cancer cells

 The joint research group of Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences (medicine), Okayama University Hospital New Medical Research and Development Center, and Hayashihara will be held on December 12th, 16 […].

World's First Identification of Influenza Immune Cell Storage Site Kinki University

 A research group led by Fumiki Takamura of Kinki University is the world's first storage of CD8-positive memory T cells responsible for influenza virus infection defense immunity […]

The world's first new method for prenatal diagnosis of cytomegalovirus infection Kobe University

 Research group by Professor Hideto Yamada, Professor Kenji Tanimura, Professor Ichiro Morioka, and Director Toshio Minematsu of Aisenkai Nichinan Hospital Disease Control Institute, Kobe University […]

Developed by Okayama University, scissors that cut the genetic information of viruses

 A research group led by Professor Takashi Sera and Assistant Professor Tomoaki Mori of the Graduate School of Natural Sciences, Okayama University has shortened the "genome RNA" that is the genetic information of the virus […]