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UQ researcher on the hunt for viruses

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- UQ scientist Ian Mackay is always on the lookout for that lucky find - well, if you consider unknown strains of the common cold virus lucky.


Researchers progress toward AIDS vaccine

Researchers progress toward AIDS vaccine

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Rutgers AIDS researchers Gail Ferstandig Arnold and Eddy Arnold may have turned a corner in their search for a HIV vaccine. In a paper just published in the Journal of Virology, the husband and wife duo and ...


Sequences capture the code of the common cold

Sequences capture the code of the common cold

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created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an effort to confront our most familiar malady, scientists have deciphered the instruction manual for the common cold.





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Researcher finds there could be up to 200 cold viruses

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bad news for the immune system: New research has boosted the number of likely common-cold viruses waiting to make you miserable from the long-accepted 100 to perhaps double that number.


Getting less sleep associated with lower resistance to colds

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Individuals who get less than seven hours of sleep per night appear about three times as likely to develop respiratory illness following exposure to a cold virus as those who sleep eight hours or more, according to a report ...


Catching the common cold virus genome

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study by Brigham Young University researchers on the virus behind nearly half of all cold infections explains how and where evolution occurs in the rhinovirus genome and what this means for possible vaccines.


Cold virus strain kills 10

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 16, 2007 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said 10 people have been killed by a potent new form of the common cold virus.


Common cold virus came from birds

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created Nov 20, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (18) | comments 0

A virus that causes cold-like symptoms in humans originated in birds and may have crossed the species barrier around 200 years ago, according to an article published in the December issue of the Journal of General Virology. ...


New vaccine developed for preventing 'uncommon cold' virus

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Common colds typically cause a week of sneezing, aches and pains and then fade away leaving only a sore nose and a few used sick days behind. But what if that cold turned out to be something more?


Common cold virus may kill breast cancer cells

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 28, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

University of Newcastle researcher Kathryn Skelding, funded by the National Breast Cancer Foundation and Viralytics Ltd, has been working on a new treatment which only affects cancer cells – this would be an improvement on ...


Chicago Flu Outbreak Proves It's Not Too Late To Get Vaccinated

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

So far, this has been a mild flu season in the Chicago area, but beware -- we're not completely out of the woods yet.


First comprehensive genomic study of common cold reveals new treatment targets

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created Oct 24, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Today, scientists from Procter & Gamble (P&G), the University of Calgary and the University of Virginia announced results from the first study to examine the entire human genome's response to the most common cold virus, ...


Detailed surface features of the matrix protein

Matrix protein key to fighting viruses

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers from Durham University's Centre for Bioactive Chemistry are developing methods that show how proteins interact with cell membranes when a virus strikes. Using their approach, the team hopes to ...



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