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HIV conquers immune system faster than previously realized
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 18, 2008 |
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New research into the earliest events occurring immediately upon infection with HIV-I shows that the virus deals a stunning blow to the immune system earlier than was previously understood. According to scientists at Duke ...
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Fall babies: Born to wheeze?
Nov 21, 2008 |
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It is said that timing is everything, and that certainly appears to be true for autumn infants. Children who are born four months before the height of cold and flu season have a greater risk of developing childhood asthma ...
Geminid meteor shower to peak on 14th December 2009
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The annual Geminid meteor shower is predicted to peak at 0510 GMT on 14th December. Meteors (or ‘shooting stars’) are the result of small particles entering the Earth’s atmosphere at high speed, heating up ...
Parasitic worm infections increase susceptibility to AIDS viruses
Jul 23, 2008 |
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Persons infected with schistosomes, and possibly other parasitic worm infections, may be more likely to become infected with HIV than persons without worm infections, according to a study published July 23rd in the open-access ...
New culprit for viral infections among elderly -- an overactive immune response
Nov 18, 2009 |
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Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found that exaggerated responses of the immune system explain why the elderly succumb to viral infections more readily than younger people. Published in the November ...
Mystery solved: Scientists now know how smallpox kills
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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 ...
Message gone viral? Blame it on altruistic, yet image-conscious Internet 'e-mavens'
Nov 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Why do some online ad campaigns go viral while other online marketing messages gather "cyber-dust" on the information superhighway? The key may lie in the motivation of Internet users to email ...
Widely used virus assay shown unreliable when compared to other methods
Oct 21, 2009 |
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In the course of doing research on the mosquito-borne pathogens chikungunya virus (CHIKV) and o' nyong-nyong virus (ONNV), Virginia Tech researchers have discovered an inconvenient truth about an assay, strand-specific quantitative ...
Modified crops reveal hidden cost of resistance
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Genetically modified squash plants that are resistant to a debilitating viral disease become more vulnerable to a fatal bacterial infection, according to biologists.
New findings suggest strategy to help generate HIV-neutralizing antibodies
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 19, 2009 |
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New discoveries about anti-HIV antibodies may bring researchers a step closer to creating an effective HIV vaccine, according to a new paper co-authored by scientists at the Vaccine Research Center of the National Institute ...
MicroRNAs grease the cell's circadian clockwork
May 31, 2009 |
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Most of our cells possess an internal clock, a group of genes displaying a cyclic expression pattern that reaches a peak once a day. A large number of circadian genes are expressed by organs such as the liver, whose activity ...
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