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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.


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.


Adult gut can generate new neurons

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

The adult lower digestive tract can be stimulated to add neurons to the intestinal system, according to new mouse research in the August 5 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The study shows that drugs similar to the ne ...


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 ...


New study of human pancreases links virus to cause of type 1 diabetes

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A team of researchers from the Peninsula Medical School in the South West of England, the University of Brighton and the Department of Pathology at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, has found that a common family of viruses (enteroviruses) ...


Sequences capture the code of the common cold

Sequences capture the code of the common cold

Biology /

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.


First comprehensive genomic study of common cold reveals new treatment targets

Medicine & Health / Research

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, ...