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Research about plant viruses could lead to new ways to improve crop yields

Research about plant viruses could lead to new ways to improve crop yields

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created Oct 01, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An interdisciplinary group of scientists has obtained the first detailed information about the structure of the most destructive group of plant viruses known: flexible filamentous viruses. ...





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Self-Assembled Viruses

Chemistry /

created May 30, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 2

Viruses are true experts at importing genetic material into the cells of an infected organism. This trait is now being exploited for gene therapy, in which genes are brought into the cells of a patient to treat genetic diseases ...


Structures of important plant viruses determined

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created Oct 01, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Flexible filamentous viruses make up a large fraction of known plant viruses and are responsible for more than half the viral damage to crop plants throughout the world. New details of their structures, which were poorly ...


Antarctic lake

Antarctic lake home to diverse community of viruses

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A study of the genetic structure of viruses in an Antarctic lake has revealed an astonishing genetic richness in the large number of viral families discovered.


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.


UK police make 2 Trojan computer virus arrests

Technology / Internet

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 14

(AP) -- A couple suspected of helping spread some of the Internet's most aggressive computer viruses has been arrested in the English city of Manchester, police said Wednesday.


HIV's ancestors 'plagued first mammals'

HIV's ancestors 'plagued first mammals'

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The retroviruses which gave rise to HIV have been battling it out with mammal immune systems since mammals first evolved around 100 million years ago - about 85 million years earlier than ...


Researcher studies monkeys in Africa to better understand virus evolution

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite the importance of AIDS in human health, scientists still know very little about the diversity and ecology of AIDS-like viruses in nature.


Tokyo hospital to test viral therapy for tumors

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

Tokyo University Hospital will begin a clinical test in late August of a viral therapy in which viruses are injected directly into brain tumor patients, according to hospital officials.


UCSB scientists discover potential drug delivery system

Scientists discover potential new drug delivery system

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have discovered a potential new drug delivery system. The finding is a biological mechanism for delivery of nanoparticles into tissue. The results are published ...


Health officials recommend gap between flu spray vaccines

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Both seasonal flu and 2009 H1N1 flu vaccines may be given to a patient at the same visit, as long as they're not both in the nasal spray form, health officials said.



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