News: Infectious Diseases

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Department of Statistics and Data Sciences

Updated: Model Forecasts When States, Cities Likely to See Peak in COVID-19 Deaths

A University of Texas at Austin model that projects COVID-19 deaths for all 50 U.S. states and dozens of metro areas using geolocation data.

A map of the US forecasts daily deaths from COVID-19

Department of Molecular Biosciences

Antibodies from Llamas Could Help in Fight Against COVID-19

The hunt for an effective treatment for COVID-19 has led researchers to find an improbable ally for their work: a llama named Winter.

Winter is a llama from the Belgian countryside

Department of Molecular Biosciences

Breakthrough in Coronavirus Research Results in New Map to Support Vaccine Design

Researchers from UT Austin and the National Institutes of Health have made a critical breakthrough toward developing a vaccine for COVID-19

Jason S. McLellan, associate professor of molecular biosciences, left, and graduate student Daniel Wrapp, right, work in the McLellan Lab at The University of Texas at Austin Monday

Research

How Chromosomes Organize and Genes Interact Needs Rethinking, Study Finds

Bacterial DNA much more twisted than originally thought.

Artist illustration of phage superimposed over multicolored background

Podcast

Experimental Vaccine Against Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Elicits Strong Immune Response

After decades of research, an effective RSV vaccine now seems within reach

A patient receives a vaccination in the arm

Research

Fighting Hepatitis C Virus, Using Clues from What Killed Bevo XIV

And other adventures in animal viruses teaching us about human disease

Image of Bevo with a handler standing beside him

Department of Molecular Biosciences

The 40 Year-old Discovery Behind A Promising New Flu Drug

How basic research led to a better antiviral drug to combat influenza

Robert Krug in his lab at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, circa 1970s.

Research

Promise of New Antibiotics Lies with Shackling Tiny Toxic Tetherballs to Bacteria

Bryan Davies of The University of Texas at Austin and a team have developed a system to identify new options for fighting bacteria.

Artist rendering of bacteria in orange on dark brown background