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Laboratory professionals in Africa receive training under AIDS Relief Plan
...an four million citizens are infected with the HIV virus and about one-third of all Ethiopian hospital beds are occupied by HIV carriers. ...Elevated temperature enhances success of viral cancer therapy
...at is based on infection with a specially designed virus similar to the one that causes the common cold has...n in tumor cells until the cells become so full of virus that they burst and die. The virus is modified so that it only copies itself in tumor cells and is s...Scientists show that tick-borne flaviviruses use a novel mechanism to evade host defenses
...nclude West Nile virus, yellow fever virus, dengue virus and Japanese encephalitis virus; the less-familiar... in the Journal of Virology describes how a single virus protein--NS5--from the tick-borne Langat flavivirus counteracts the natural ability of interferon to...Secrets to antibody's success against West Nile Virus surprise scientists
...can effectively treat mice infected with West Nile virus has an intriguing secret: Contrary to scientists' ...ive at stopping the process of infection after the virus attaches to host cells." Detailed study of how the antibody physically binds to the virus has pro...Virologist finds contagious equine flu in dogs
...logist has isolated a highly contagious equine flu virus that is spreading a sometimes-fatal respiratory fl...k in New York state. There is no evidence that the virus could infect people. According to a paper published in the Sept. 26 issue of Science Express (Vol....Mass production of human papillomavirus could lead to gains against cervical cancer
...n the verge of exploiting the vulnerabilities of a virus that causes cervical cancer, thanks to a newly dev... cancers. A more common, less virulent form of the virus causes genital warts. Using the new technique scientists can quickly produce a thousand times more ...Gene therapy to lower blood pressure just enough
A newly developed virus that introduces a blood pressure-lowering gene into cells and enables that gene to maintain blood pressure at healthy levels for four months promises to take gene therapy for the disorder a step closer to reality, said researchers at Baylor College o...Monkeypox mystery: New research may explain why 2003 outbreak in the US wasn't deadly
...lent than others, depending on where in Africa the virus came from. "We have at least two biological strains of monkeypox virus - one on the west coast of Africa, and the other in the Congo basin," Buller said. "The 2003 outbrea...A novel method to measure circadian cycles
... infected subsequently made tissue cultures with a virus engineered to report with a fluorescent signal when a certain host circadian rhythm gene was expressed. They found that their data jibed with the previously accepted length of the human circadian cycle: 24.5 hours. Because of the sensitivity of thei...AIDS expert says global strategy needed to combat feminization of HIV/AIDS
... people worldwide currently infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and in some developing countries...women at greater risk than men for contracting the virus when exposed to it. 60 percent of people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, are female, Quinn s...Researchers create infectious hepatitis C virus in a test tube
...e first time an infectious form of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) in laboratory cultures of human cells. The f... inability to reproduce aspects of the hepatitis C virus life cycle in cell culture has slowed research progress on this important human pathogen," says seni...Bird samples from Mongolia confirmed as H5N1 avian flu
...t following the survey, suggesting that either the virus had little effect on the birds or that very few we...gia, for further testing to determine whether this virus is the H5N1 strain that has killed over 50 people in Southeast Asia and more than 5,000 wild birds i...Primate virus jumps species barrier to humans for first time in Asia
...a of primate-to-human transmission of simian foamy virus (SFV), a retrovirus found in macaques and other pr...o cause disease in humans. The transmission of the virus from a monkey to a human took place at a monkey temple in Bali, Indonesia, the researchers report in...Quantum dots provide a faster, more sensitive method for detecting respiratory viral infections
...create an early detection method for a respiratory virus that is the most common cause of hospitalization among children under five. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) sends about 120,000 children to the hospital in the United States each year. Although it is on...Hopkins scientists uncover 'tags' that force proteins to cell surface
...on cue, and the docking point that allows HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, into cells, the researchers discovered. Because proteins on the cell surface are "lock-on" sites for drugs and other molecules, as well as triggers of immune reactions, the findings, described in the Sept. 11 advance online publica...Several minute intermediate stage in virus-cell fusion discovered; opportunity for drug development
...ignite a life-threatening infection in the body, a virus such as HIV invades body cells by first merging, o...s in the body. Scientists had assumed that once a virus begins fusing with a cell's membrane, infection of the host cell was inevitable. Thus, antiviral dru......hicago shows promise in slowing replication of the virus responsible for severe acute respiratory syndrome,...nhibitors that would block key enzymes in the SARS virus and hamper its advance. Protease inhibitors, a class of drugs capable of disrupting enzymes that dig......nd Ebola viruses. Tests on monkeys show the hybrid virus delivers genes to the lungs far more efficiently t...la to HIV. Initial tests on mice showed the hybrid virus was very efficient: the gene it carried was active in 24 per cent of airway cells after two months, ...Hanging baskets of sex and death help fruit growers
... pest of fruit orchards as a weapon to spread a virus to kill that very same pest. The device allows growers to selectively target the pest with a virus that kills its larvae without killing other beneficial insects. The researchers at Warwick HRI, the...Use of high hydrostatic pressure to inactivate Hepatitis A virus in oysters studied
...h hydrostatic pressure will inactivate Hepatitis A virus in both shucked and unshucked oysters. The projec...ving food safety and food processing. Hepatitis A virus (HAV) is one of the more serious illnesses transmissible by shellfish. Worldwide, HAV is responsible...Other Tagsinvasion 2breathe 2breathe 3breathe 4breathe 5students 2students 3students 4students 5students 6students 7students 8students 9students 10produces 2produces 3produces 4produces 5produces 6produces 7produces 8produces 9produces 10broadly 2
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