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K-State biologist hopes mosquito can break viral chain
Most people do their best to avoid mosquitoes. But this summer Rollie Clem will play the wary host to his own homegrown swarm of Aedes aegypti, the yellow fever mosquito. He's made a room ready for them, and even a menu.   view more (2007-05-22)

UQ research heralds vaccine technology breakthrough
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection is a widespread infant illness that has been linked to asthma and can be deadly but may be curable by the development of this new vaccine technology by the Sir Albert Sakzewski Virus Research Centre and The University of Queensland's Faculty of Biological... view more (2007-05-09)

Hepatitis C virus may need enzyme's help to cause liver disease
A key enzyme may explain how hepatitis C infection causes fatty liver - a buildup of excess fat in the liver, which can lead to life-threatening diseases such as cirrhosis and liver cancer, report University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and School of Medicine researchers.   view more (2008-07-09)

Researchers map infectious hepatitis B virus
Using electron cryomicroscopy and computer image analysis, the scientists visualized two intermediate forms of the virus that exist within infected cells. In addition, they were able to determine a three-dimensional map by analysis of infectious hepatitis B virus isolated from patient blood samples.   view more (2006-06-26)

NIAID scientists identify human protein that helps chickenpox and shingles virus spread
A team of scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has identified a human protein that helps varicella-zoster virus, the cause of chickenpox and shingles, spread from cell to cell within the body.   view more (2006-10-23)

Finding SARS-CoV virus in many parts of the body leads to calls for more stringent infection control measures
New research in two papers published this week in The Journal of Pathology gives greater insight into why the virus is so deadly, and shows that it could transfer from person to person via breath, urine, faeces and even sweat. Searching for SARS Scientists in China used markers that only bind to... view more (2004-05-05)

Tracking influenza's every movement
It's the case of the missing flu virus. When the flu isn't making people sick, it seems to just vanish. Yet, every year, everywhere on Earth, it reappears in the appropriate season and starts its attack.   view more (2008-05-20)

Volunteers sought for avian flu vaccine study
Vanderbilt University Medical Center is enrolling volunteers in a study to test a new vaccine that targets avian flu, the first such vaccine against the virus.   view more (2005-10-31)

Structure of the yellow rice mottle virus determined for the first time
Scientists from IRD (Institut de recherche pour le développement, ex-ORSTOM), the Scripps Research Institute and the International Laboratory for Tropical Agricultural technology (ILTAB) have succeeded, after several years of research, in reconstructing a three-dimensional model of the rice... view more (2001-01-26)

The origin of HIV-1 New clarification from an epidemiological study in central Africa
An enormous variety of strains of HIV-1 are circulating in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC, ex-Zaire). The diversity is much higher than that observed in other African countries and as great as that encountered in the world as a whole. This is the main finding of a wide-ranging... view more (2001-04-25)

New study pinpoints unique genetic susceptibility for viral encephalitis
In the study, the researchers suggest that herpes simplex encephalitis may reflect a single gene immunodeficiency that confers susceptibility to herpes simplex virus, an idea that contrasts with the prevailing scientific theory of how genes work to make people vulnerable to infections.   view more (2006-09-18)

New approach could lower antibiotic requirements by 50 times
Steven Hagens, previously at the University of Vienna, told Chemistry & Industry, the magazine of the SCI, that certain bacteriophages, a type of virus that infects bacteria, can boost the effectiveness of antibiotics gentamicin, gramacidin or tetracycline.   view more (2007-01-30)

A step forward in virology
The vaccinia virus has a problem: it is a giant among viruses and needs a special strategy in order to infiltrate a cell and reproduce.   view more (2008-04-25)

Work Migration Of Russian Scientists
Who are the Russian scientists moving abroad to work in recent times? The problem is analyzed by the Centre for Demography and Human Ecology of the Institute of Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences. According to official sources in 2002, 2.9 thousands of Russian scientists from... view more (2004-07-19)

From the egg, baby crocodiles call to each other and to mom
For the first time, researchers have shown that the pre-hatching calls of baby Nile crocodiles actually mean something to their siblings and to their mothers.   view more (2008-06-24)

MMR, chicken pox vaccines work for preemies
Vaccines for measles-mumps-rubella and varicella, or chicken pox, are effective in extremely preterm infants, even though preemies' immune systems are not as developed as full-term babies. This confirms a long-held assumption by pediatricians and neonatologists across the country.   view more (2007-03-05)

Genetic breakthrough supercharges immunity to flu and other viruses
Researchers at McGill University have discovered a way to boost an organism's natural anti-virus defences, effectively making its cells immune to influenza and other viruses.   view more (2008-02-14)

In-shell vaccine for chick disease
Infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) causes losses of £23.6M a year to the UK poultry industry but scientists are now developing a new way to vaccinate chicks against the disease - one that can be delivered while they are still in their egg.   view more (2007-01-05)

Ambitious Fundraising for New Medical School
"Like Eden, the Peninsula Medical School is a ground-breaking project and an exciting development for the region," said the Right Honourable Lord David Owen CH, speaking with regard to the first new school of medicine to be launched in the UK for 30 years and the first for over a century... view more (2002-01-30)

Features of replication suggest viruses have common themes, vulnerabilities
A study of the reproductive apparatus of a model virus is bolstering the idea that broad classes of viruses - including those that cause important human diseases such as AIDS, SARS and hepatitis C - have features in common that could eventually make them vulnerable to broad-spectrum antiviral... view more (2007-08-14)

LIAI Researchers Discover New Cellular Mechanism That Will Significantly Advance Vaccine Development
La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology (LIAI) scientists have discovered one for the textbooks. Their finding, reported Friday in the scientific journal Immunity, illuminates a new, previously unknown mechanism in how the body fights a virus.   view more (2008-06-17)

Liverpool Scientists Uncover How E.Coli Became Lethal
A University of Liverpool scientist has discovered how the food poisoning bug E.Coli 0157 became deadly to humans.   view more (2005-04-04)

Study details hepatitis C ability to block immune system response
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a worldwide public health problem. The World Health Organization estimates that 170 million people worldwide are chronically infected and that between 3-4 million are newly infected annually.   view more (2006-05-19)

Protecting HIV patients from Hepatitis B virus
Since the transmission of HIV and Hepatitis B virus (HBV) are so similar, individuals infected with one of these viruses are at a significantly increased risk for contracting the other.   view more (2007-07-18)

Variants Of SARS Virus Gives Clues To Origin Of Infection
A genetic study of the SARS virus fast-tracked for publication on THE LANCET's website-www.thelancet.com-gives an insight into the molecular behaviour of the novel coronavirus responsible for SARS. Comparison of a virus isolate from Singapore with isolates from other countries where SARS has struck... view more (2003-05-08)
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