News tagged with computer virus infection


Stolen-data trove offers look inside a botnet

Technology / Software

created Mar 15, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(AP) -- Getting hacked is like having your computer turn traitor on you, spying on everything you do and shipping your secrets to identity thieves.





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First immunological clue to why some H1N1 patients get very ill or die

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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An international team of Canadian and Spanish scientists have found the first potential immunological clue of why some people develop severe pneumonia when infected by the pandemic H1N1 virus.


Biological catch-22 prevents induction of antibodies that block HIV

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created 4 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Scientists seeking to understand how to make an AIDS vaccine have found the cause of a major roadblock. It turns out that the immune system can indeed produce cells with the potential to manufacture powerful HIV-blocking ...


New insight into selective binding properties of infectious HIV

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

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Free infectious HIV-1 is widely thought to be the major form of the virus in the blood of infected persons. U.S. Military HIV Research Program (MHRP) researchers, however, have demonstrated that essentially all of the infectious ...


Research reveals further progress toward AIDS vaccine

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PHILADELPHIA) Researchers from Thomas Jefferson University are one step closer to developing a vaccine against the AIDS disease.


Math goes viral: Researchers make math and science real for high-school students

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

At least a dozen Alberta high-school calculus classrooms were exposed to the West Nile virus recently.


Study shows how gene action may lead to diabetes prevention, cure

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 2

A gene commonly studied by cancer researchers has been linked to the metabolic inflammation that leads to diabetes.


One Can Act Without Group Support; Even in the Bacterial World

One Can Act Without Group Support; Even in the Bacterial World

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A single bacterium can act alone, performing the same kinds of actions that a group normally does. The behavior of that bacterium can be manipulated at the cellular level. That’s the intriguing ...


Scientists reveal key structure from ebola virus

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have determined the structure of a critical protein from the Ebola virus, which, though rare, is one of the deadliest viruses on the planet killing between 50 and 90 percent of ...


Swine flu toll includes a few pets (AP)

Swine flu toll includes a few pets

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A handful of pets have been sickened with swine flu in recent weeks, but here are doctors' orders: Wash your hands and don't panic.


'Shoot-'em-up' video game increases teenagers' science knowledge

Biology / Other

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 2

While navigating the microscopic world of immune system proteins and cells to save a patient suffering from a raging bacterial infection, young teenage players of the "Immune Attack" video game measurably improved their understanding ...



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