Showing posts with label viruses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label viruses. Show all posts
Sunday, January 8, 2017

Retroviruses Are Almost Half A Billion Years Old

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Seeker: Retroviruses, Including HIV, Are Almost Half a Billion Years Old According to scientists, retroviruses probably developed in m...
Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Human: Contagion: Is a Killer Virus Out There? (Video)

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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Where Science And The Search For Understanding Can Produce Mankind's Worst Nightmare

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This transmission electron micrograph taken at a magnification of 150,000x, reveals the ultrastructural details of an avian influenza A (H5N...
Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Every Bioterrorism Expert's Worse Nightmare: Recent Man-Made Super-Flu Could Kill Half Humanity

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This transmission electron micrograph taken at a magnification of 150,000x, reveals the ultrastructural details of an avian influenza A (H5N...
Friday, November 5, 2010

Scientists May Have Discovered A Cure For The Common Cold (And Lots Of Other Viruses)

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Virus Attack! Virus (purple) circulating in the bloodstream recognised by antibodies (yellow) of the immune system The Independent From Po...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Ancient "Fossil" Virus Shows Infection To Be Millions Of Years Old

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INFECTIOUS INSERTIONS: Today's songbirds are harboring traces of ancient viral strains in their genomes, giving researchers a new unders...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Scientists 'Clone' Human Virus Responsible for Congenital Malformations and Other Life-Threatening Diseases

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In this immunofluorescent image, a specimen of human embryonic lung reveals the presence of cytomegalovirus; magnification 25X. (Credit: CDC...
Monday, September 13, 2010

Ancient Viral Invasion Shaped Human Genome

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Scientists have discovered that viruses that "invaded" the human genome millions of years ago have changed the way genes get turne...
Sunday, January 31, 2010

I, Virus: Why You're Only Half Human

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Part of our DNA (Image: Mehau Kulyk/SPL/Getty) From New Scientist: WHEN, in 2001, the human genome was sequenced for the first time, we were...
Thursday, May 7, 2009

Cooking Up Millions Of Viruses For A New Vaccine

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Research assistants at New York Medical College on Tuesday prepared to harvest swine flu virus that had been grown in eggs. Béatrice de Géa ...
Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Virus Hunters: Inside Maryland's New Biosafety Level 4 Lab

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Left: The air-lock entrance to the lab’s hot zone. Right: A biohazard suit protects Peter Jahrling, chief virus hunter at the Integrated Res...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

New Details About Mysterious Giant Virus Uncovered

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T he N-terminal and C-terminal jelly-roll domains are colored green and red, respectively. Top left is a ribbon diagram of the adenovirus ca...
Thursday, April 23, 2009

Viruses Could Kill Superbugs That Antibiotics Can't

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Bacteriophages like the one shown in this computer-generated image could be a new weapon against antibiotic-resistant bacteria (Image: Corne...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009

What Is Norovirus? How Contagious Is It? Can It Be Fatal?

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NASTY NOROVIRUS: Virus particles like these are responsible for sickening 23 million people in the U.S. every year. GrahamColm via Wikimedia...
Monday, March 30, 2009

Nathan Wolfe: Did We Mention This Guy Was Brilliant?

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From Popsci.com: PopSci "Brilliant 10" alum takes the TED stage to talk about his groundbreaking work as a virus hunter; see the ...
Monday, September 29, 2008

Even Viruses Catch Viruses

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From Live Science: Among pathogens, viruses are unique in their collective ability to infect all types of organisms. There are plant viruses...