A groundbreaking study by researchers from the Universities of Basel and Zurich has unlocked one of the most significant ...

Scientists in Switzerland have cracked open a century-old viral mystery by decoding the genome of the 1918 influenza virus.

This is the first time we’ve had access to an influenza genome from the 1918–1920 pandemic in Switzerland. It opens up new insights into the dynamics of how the virus adapt ...

Scientists in Switzerland have cracked open a century-old viral mystery by decoding the genome of the 1918 influenza virus from a preserved Zurich patient. This ancient RNA revealed that the virus had ...

Researchers from the universities of Basel and Zurich have used a historical specimen from UZH’s Medical Collection to decode the genome of the virus responsible for the 1918–1920 influenza pandemic ...

Scientists have decoded the Swiss genome of the 1918 flu virus from a century-old specimen, revealing early adaptations for human infection. Scientists from the Universities of Basel and Zurich have s ...

The HHS is betting $500 million on developing a universal flu vaccine that could protect against multiple flu strains.

In a pioneering study published in Molecular Therapy, researchers from the University of Oslo have unveiled a revolutionary DNA vaccine that can present influenza to our immune system on a silver (and ...

An international research team led by Verena Schünemann, a paleogeneticist and professor of archaeological science at the University of Basel (formerly at the University of Zurich) has now ...