Kalle Andreasson

TL;DR: The identification of a previously unknown polyomvirus provisionally named KI polyomavirus, which is phylogenetically related to other primatepolyomaviruses in the early region of the genome but has very little homology to known polyomVirus in the late region, illustrates how unbiased screening of respiratory tract samples can be used for the discovery of diverse virus types.

TL;DR: Propofol anaesthesia might be better in surgery for some cancer types, but the retrospective design of this study, with uneven distributions of several confounders, distorted the picture and emphasize the need for a randomized controlled trial.

TL;DR: This application of VLPs is just one of many developments within the VLP field, other potential applications under development besides vaccines against viruses or cancers also include gene delivery and treatment of different disorders.

TL;DR: The results show the feasibility of using MPyV-VLPs carrying Her2 fusion proteins as safe and efficient vaccines against Her2-expressing tumors in two different in vivo models.

TL;DR: The discovery of Merkel cell PyV (MCPyV) integration into the malignant cell genome immediately implicates this agent in an oncogenic process predicted by previous research with SV40 and murine PyV, suggesting the beginning of a new era in novel human polyomavirus identification.