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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.


UQ researcher on the hunt for viruses

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- UQ scientist Ian Mackay is always on the lookout for that lucky find - well, if you consider unknown strains of the common cold virus lucky.


New vaccine developed for preventing 'uncommon cold' virus

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Common colds typically cause a week of sneezing, aches and pains and then fade away leaving only a sore nose and a few used sick days behind. But what if that cold turned out to be something more?


Getting less sleep associated with lower resistance to colds

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Individuals who get less than seven hours of sleep per night appear about three times as likely to develop respiratory illness following exposure to a cold virus as those who sleep eight hours or more, according to a report ...





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Catching the common cold virus genome

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study by Brigham Young University researchers on the virus behind nearly half of all cold infections explains how and where evolution occurs in the rhinovirus genome and what this means for possible vaccines.


Giving mice a cold virus offers hope of new asthma treatments

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created Jan 27, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (19) | comments 0

Scientists have been able to recreate rhinovirus infection, which is behind most common colds, in a small animal for the first time.


Cold virus found to manipulate genes

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created Oct 24, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (22) | comments 1

Sneezing, runny nose and chills? You might blame the human rhinovirus (HRV), which causes 30 to 50 percent of common colds. But in reality, it's not the virus itself but HRV's ability to manipulate your genes that is the ...


Common cold may send some young children to the hospital

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 21, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New evidence supports the link between a cause of the common cold and more severe respiratory infections such as pneumonia and acute bronchitis. The study is published in the March 15 issue of The Journal of Infectious Di ...


First comprehensive genomic study of common cold reveals new treatment targets

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created Oct 24, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Today, scientists from Procter & Gamble (P&G), the University of Calgary and the University of Virginia announced results from the first study to examine the entire human genome's response to the most common cold virus, ...


Childhood wheezing with rhinovirus can increase asthma odds 10-fold

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 01, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Infants who experience viral respiratory illnesses with wheezing are known to be at increased risk for developing asthma later during childhood. It is not known, however, whether every type of respiratory virus that produces ...


Sequences capture the code of the common cold

Sequences capture the code of the common cold

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created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an effort to confront our most familiar malady, scientists have deciphered the instruction manual for the common cold.


Researchers progress toward AIDS vaccine

Researchers progress toward AIDS vaccine

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Rutgers AIDS researchers Gail Ferstandig Arnold and Eddy Arnold may have turned a corner in their search for a HIV vaccine. In a paper just published in the Journal of Virology, the husband and wife duo and ...


McMaster test detects the most prevalent respiratory viruses

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created Jan 28, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Diagnosing a nasty cough is now a lot easier thanks to a new test developed at McMaster University, which has just been approved by U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in the United States.


Researchers examine evolution of genes that trigger the body's immune response to viral infection

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created Oct 21, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Virginia Commonwealth University Institute of Molecular Medicine researchers have traced the evolutionary origin of two genes that serve as primary cellular sensors of infection with RNA viruses, such as influenza, poliovirus, ...



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