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Researchers use social network analysis to model virus evolution

Researchers use social network analysis to model virus evolution

New research from Western University suggests some viruses evolve more like a dynamic social network – rather than a rigid tree, as was previously believed – recombining with one another to create a web of intersecting subtypes. This work has implications for...

“Cook your Wash” campaign reduces risk of HIV transmission

“Cook your Wash” campaign reduces risk of HIV transmission

New studies from Lawson Health Research Institute and Western University have found for the first time that HIV can be transmitted through the sharing of equipment used to prepare drugs before injection and that a simple intervention – heating the equipment with a...

Researchers date ‘hibernating’ HIV strains

Researchers date ‘hibernating’ HIV strains

Researchers at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) and Simon Fraser University (SFU), in partnership with University of British Columbia (UBC) and Western University, have developed a novel way for dating “hibernating” HIV strains, in an advancement for...