News tagged with harmless virus

Biologists deliver neutralizing antibodies that protect against HIV infection in mice

Over the past year, researchers at the California Institute of Technology, and around the world, have been studying a group of potent antibodies that have the ability to neutralize HIV in the lab; their hope ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cancer researchers find key oncoprotein in Merkel cell carcinoma

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) have identified the oncoprotein that allows a common and usually harmless virus to transform healthy cells into a rare but deadly skin cancer called Merkel ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Gene therapy for muscular dystrophy shows promise beyond safety

Researchers have cleared a safety hurdle in efforts to develop a gene therapy for a form of muscular dystrophy that disables patients by gradually weakening muscles near the hips and shoulders.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Small things, big thinking

Finely tuned for touch and smell, the fly foot has sensors that can detect both chemical and mechanical changes in the environment.  The outcome of more than three billion years of evolution, these sensors are far smaller ...

Chemistry / Other

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

FDA clears safety test to screen Tysabri patients

(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a new diagnostic test to help identify patients who have an increased risk of developing a rare brain infection while taking Biogen Idec's multiple sclerosis drug ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers design Alzheimer's antibodies

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method to design antibodies aimed at combating disease. The surprisingly simple process was used to make antibodies that neutralize the ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New evidence links virus to brain cancer

(Medical Xpress) -- Tilting the scales in an ongoing debate, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have found new evidence that human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is associated with glioblastoma multiforme ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

US patent awarded for Rochester's pioneering HPV vaccine work

The University of Rochester has been awarded a U.S. patent for research essential to both human papillomavirus vaccines on the market.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds a weak spot on deadly ebolavirus

Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and the US Army's Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases have isolated and analyzed an antibody that neutralizes Sudan virus, a major species of ebolavirus ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Chemists cram two million nanorods into single cancer cell

(PhysOrg.com) -- Rice University chemists have found a way to load more than 2 million tiny gold particles called nanorods into a single cancer cell. The breakthrough could speed development of cancer treatments ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Texas A&M center confronts antibiotic crisis with potential new bacterial treatment

It's been called "the trots," "Montezuma's Revenge," "the runs" and worse. But no matter the name, when it strikes, victims wish for a medicine that could go straight to the offending bacteria to quickly knock ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Pediatrician shares why children need flu shots

It’s a common question parents ask themselves this time of year: Does my child really need a flu shot? Though the flu may seem harmless, the truth on average 20,000 children age 5 and younger are hospitalized due to ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Turning viruses into molecular Legos

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have turned a benign virus into an engineering tool for assembling structures that mimic collagen, one of the most important structural proteins in nature. ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4 | with audio podcast


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