News articles tagged with 'virus' (Page 2)
New instrument for analysing viruses
— 9 Mar 2011 20:41 | HealthScientists in Israel and California have developed an instrument for rapidly analysing molecular interactions that take place viruses and the cells they infect. By helping to identify…
Making viruses pass for 'safe'
— 9 Mar 2011 20:35 | HealthViruses can penetrate every part of the body, making them potentially good tools for gene therapy or drug delivery. But with our immune system primed to seek and destroy these foreign…
Team uncovers dengue fever virus' molecular secrets
— 9 Mar 2011 18:56 | HealthResearchers at the Instituto de Medicina Molecular in Lisbon, Portugal and the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, are making major strides toward…
Scientists find key mechanism of childhood respiratory disease
— 8 Mar 2011 14:23 | HealthResearchers have identified a critical part of the process by which one of the world's most common and dangerous early childhood infections, respiratory syncytial virus, causes disease…
'David and Goliath' viruses shed light on the origin of jumping genes: UBC study
— 4 Mar 2011 14:41 | BiologyUniversity of British Columbia researchers have identified a small virus that attacks another virus more than 100 times its own size, rescuing the infected zooplankton from certain…
Using artificial, cell-like 'honey pots' to entrap deadly viruses
— 3 Mar 2011 14:32 | HealthResearchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Weill Cornell Medical College have designed artificial 'protocells' that can lure, entrap and inactivate…
For first time, scientists show an HIV vaccine impacts the genetic makeup of the virus
— 2 Mar 2011 12:37 | HealthAn AIDS vaccine tested in people, but found to be ineffective, influenced the genetic makeup of the virus that slipped past. The findings suggest new ideas for developing HIV vaccines…
Microscope could 'solve the cause of viruses'
— 2 Mar 2011 12:19 | HealthWriting in the journal Nature Communications, the team have created a microscope which shatters the record for the smallest object the eye can see, beating the diffraction limit of…
Drug to fight tumours also fights the flu and possibly other viruses
— 28 Feb 2011 16:52 | HealthEver get a flu shot and still get the flu? If so, there's new hope for flu-free winters in the years to come thanks to a new discovery by researchers who found that a drug called DMXAA,…
Rare HIV-positive individuals shed light on how body could effectively handle infection
— 26 Feb 2011 17:57 | HealthAlthough untreated HIV infection eventually results in immunodeficiency (AIDS), a small group of people infected with the virus, called elite suppressors (0.5 percent of all HIV-infected…