This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to three scientists who have made a decisive contribution to the fight against blood-borne hepatitis, a major global health problem that causes cirrhosis and liver cancer in people around the world. Hepatitis – a global threat to human health Liver inflammation, or hepatitis, is mainly caused by viral infections...

Vector Laboratories is presenting a webinar series on the topic Improving IHC and IF Workflows. Part 1 of the series was about troubleshooting background in IHC & IF applications. A recording of this webinar is available online. More will follow.   Final Part of the Webinar Series: Considerations for selecting IHC detection reagents While the IHC workflow is well established, the detection reagen...

Sequence and structure of the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 have been well studied and described. Of particular interest with respect to diagnostics and drug development are the spike protein (S-protein), due to its role in the interaction with human host receptors, and the highly conserved nucleocapsid protein (N-protein) with high immunogenicity. Beside, the main protease Mpro proves as an interessting target, as a key enzyme of SARS-CoV-2 without close human homologues.

The first case of African swine fever (ASP) in Germany has been confirmed. In Brandenburg, near the Polish border, a wild boar was found which had died of the disease. Several countries outside the EU, including China and Japan, have imposed an import ban on German pork as a precautionary measure. >> Information on African swine fever at fli   The first symptoms of infection of a flock with ASP can easily...

We are happy to announce, that our new BIOZOL company brochure just arrived! Its motto "BRINGING QUALITY AND EFFICIENCY TO RESEARCH & IVD" means not less than: BIOZOL offers you the all-round carefree package! Have a look into our company brochure, and learn about what BIOZOL can additionally do for you.   >> BIOZOL company brochure (German version) >>

For a report in the Business Insider magazine about the potential of the new COVID-19 antigen rapid tests, our managing director Jonas Bäuerle gave an interview with the business reporter Franziska Telser. Under the title A piece back to the former normality? Why Corona rapid tests can be groundbreaking - and what you need to know about them the business insider discusses differences between different test methods, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of rapid antigen testing and its potential for containing t...

Human Protein Atlas: Expression patterns of human proteins The Swedish Human Protein Atlas (HPA) project aims to map all human proteins in cells, tissues and organs and make this data available to scientists worldwide. During the corona crisis, the HPA committee is working to increase knowledge about human host proteins interacting with SARS-CoV-2. Find detailed information about expression patterns of, among others, the SARS-CoV-2 receptor ACE2, the associated proteases TMPRSS2, CTSB and CTSL, and many other proteins interacting with...

In our Scientific Content Area, we collect interesting webinar recordings, online courses and videos from our manufacturers on a variety of topics, including standard methods such as PCR or ELISA, current hot topics such as CRISPR/Cas9 and COVID-19, but also more specific technical questions. What they all have in common is that they all deal with very specific applications, demonstrated and explained by specialists in their field. Newest videos added include tips for succesful immunohistochemical stainings from Vector Laboratories, Active M...

The antiviral activity of lectins is largely attributed to direct binding to viral envelope glycans and preventing entry of the virus into cells.   Lectins from various sources have been shown to exhibit potent antiviral properties by inhibiting infection of clinically important viral pathogens. The antiviral activity of lectins is largely attributed to direct binding to viral envelope glycans and preventing entry of the virus into cells. Several lectins, particularly plant lectins with affinity toward manno...

Our Partner GeneTex offers an extensive line of research antibodies and proteins to support the study of SARS-CoV-2 The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), previously known as 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), is a positive-sense, single-stranded RNA virus that causes the potentially lethal COVID-19 respiratory tract infection. This new virus belongs to the genus Betacoronavirus, which also includes SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV. The first case of COVID-19 was detected in December, 2019 in Wuhan, China, and has now been d...