by Annie De Groot | Feb 6, 2016 | News, Thinking Out Loud -Blog
The fact that we (EpiVax folk) haven’t said much about Zika probably has people scratching their heads. Well … here you have it We say: proceed with caution. Why? Zika is a Flavivirus, and that means it’s an RNA virus. That means lots of rapid...
by Annie De Groot | Feb 6, 2016 | News, Thinking Out Loud -Blog
The fact that we (EpiVax folk) haven’t said much about Zika probably has people scratching their heads. Well … here you have it We say: proceed with caution. Why? Zika is a Flavivirus, and that means it’s an RNA virus. That means lots of rapid...
by Annie De Groot | Jan 23, 2016 | News, Thinking Out Loud -Blog
Graduate student Lu He, working with EpiVax CEO De Groot and collaborator Chris Bailey Kellog, recently reported that bacteria ‘copy and paste’ sequences from the human genome to escape immune response. She calls this escape mechanism “bacterial...
by Annie De Groot | Jan 21, 2016 | Featured, News, Thinking Out Loud -Blog
An academic version of this blog post, that explains why epitope redundancy provides resiliency (to bacteria) and weakness (to immune defense) can be found here. . . . So a guy named Elledge has discovered a way to test your blood for the viruses that you’ve...
by Annie De Groot | Jan 21, 2016 | Featured, News, Thinking Out Loud -Blog
An academic version of this blog post, that explains why epitope redundancy provides resiliency (to bacteria) and weakness (to immune defense) can be found here. . . . So a guy named Elledge has discovered a way to test your blood for the viruses that you’ve...