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Rapid flu testing

Medicine & Health / Research

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Researchers from the Medical College of Wisconsin, the Children's Research Institute, and the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin have developed a rapid, automated system to differentiate strains of influenza. The related report ...


WHO chief: swine flu pandemic continues (AP)

WHO chief: swine flu pandemic continues

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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(AP) -- Many more people could become sick with swine flu this winter even though it has peaked in North America and some European countries, the head of the World Health Organization said Tuesday.


Tracking Virus Resistance Genes in Watermelon Made Easier

Tracking Virus Resistance Genes in Watermelon Made Easier

Biology / Biotechnology

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Finding watermelon genes that confer resistance to the devastating zucchini yellow mosaic virus (ZYMV) has just been made easier, thanks to molecular markers developed by Agricultural Research ...


New Method Tests Severity of Key Citrus Virus

New Method Tests Severity of Key Citrus Virus

Biology / Other

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new rapid way to test severity of the devastating citrus tristeza virus (CTV) in citrus trees has been developed by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in Parlier, Calif. The ...


New tool in the fight against mosquito-borne disease: A microbial 'mosquito net'

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 24, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Earlier this year, researchers showed that they could cut the lives of disease-carrying mosquitoes in half by infecting them with a bacterium they took from fruit flies. Now, a new report in the December 24th issue of Cell, ...


Study: Swine flu poses a threat to new moms

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Swine flu is not only dangerous to pregnant women, but it's a threat to new mothers too, the first study to document this risk shows. An analysis of pregnant women and new mothers who were hospitalized with swine ...


2/3 of Australians unlikely to get vaccinated against swine flu

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Australia risks a serious swine flu (H1N1 influenza virus) outbreak with two-thirds (65 per cent) of unprotected Australians stating they're unlikely to get vaccinated against the disease in the next 12 months, according ...


Nasal swine flu vaccine recalled over potency

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Drugmaker Medimmune is recalling nearly 5 million doses of swine flu vaccine because the nasal spray appears to lose strength over time.


Mystery solved: Scientists now know how smallpox kills

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

A team of researchers working in a high containment laboratory at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, GA, have solved a fundamental mystery about smallpox that has puzzled scientists long after the ...


How flu succeeds: Investigators identify host factors that help multiple influenza strains thrive

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham), Mount Sinai School of Medicine (Mount Sinai), the Salk Institute for Biological Studies (Salk) and the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation ...



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