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Detailed surface features of the matrix protein

Matrix protein key to fighting viruses

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers from Durham University's Centre for Bioactive Chemistry are developing methods that show how proteins interact with cell membranes when a virus strikes. Using their approach, the team hopes to ...





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RSV may hide in the lungs, lead to asthma, researchers report

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 21, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Conventional wisdom has been that respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) – a common virus that causes infection in the lungs – comes and goes in children without any long lasting impact.


More children need medical help for RSV than previously known

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

More than 2 million children with Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) are seen in hospitals, emergency rooms and doctors' offices in the United States every year -- many more than doctors know. In fact, only 3 percent of children ...


New agent strikes at respiratory syncytial virus replication

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 05, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have achieved promising results with a potential new weapon against respiratory syncytial virus, the most common cause of infant hospitalization in the United States.


Common childhood virus packs an increasingly potent punch

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Five-year-old Kate Levschan and her 18-month-old brother, Jacob, have never sat on Santa's lap. Their mother, Marti Levschan, wants to keep it that way.


Scientists solve failed vaccine mystery

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 15, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Research led by Johns Hopkins Children's Center scientists has figured out why a respiratory syncytial virus vaccine used in 1966 to inoculate children against the infection instead caused severe respiratory disease and effectively ...


Amid the flu epidemic, don't forget RSV in young children

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Influenza, particularly H1N1, has understandably captured the attention of public health officials, the media and the public. However, an analysis from Children's Hospital Boston, based on patients seen in its emergency department ...


Even mildly premature infants have increased risk of a common respiratory tract infection

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Even mildly premature infants (gestational ages of 33 weeks through 36 weeks) have an increased risk of medically attended respiratory syncytial virus infection, which is the leading cause of lower respiratory tract infection ...


Study first to show that RNA interference can facilitate vaccine development

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 10, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pharmaceutical companies and universities are racing to develop drugs that use the gene silencing mechanism known as RNA interference to treat a host of diseases. Now, a new study opens up an entirely new possibility for ...


Weak immune response critical to disease that causes most infant hospitalizations

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Apr 05, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The most common cause of infant hospitalization in the United States, respiratory syncytial virus, infects virtually all children by age two. Along with the influenza virus, RSV is a major contributor to the approximately ...


Molecular imaging may lead to earlier diagnosis of childhood respiratory virus

Molecular imaging may lead to earlier diagnosis of childhood respiratory virus

Other Sciences /

created Apr 18, 2006 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists have used a powerful molecular imaging technique to see inside living cells infected with the most pervasive and potentially fatal childhood respiratory virus known to medicine -- respiratory syncytial ...



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