News tagged with viral diseases


Researchers develop the first climate-based model to predict Dengue fever outbreaks

Researchers develop the first climate-based model to predict Dengue fever outbreaks

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jun 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Dengue Fever (DF) and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) are the most important vector-borne viral diseases in the World. Around 50-100 million cases appear each year putting 2.5 billion people at risk of suffering ...





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Moving gene therapy forward with mobile DNA

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created May 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Gene therapy is the introduction of genetic material into a patient's cells resulting in a cure or a therapeutic effect. In recent years, it has been shown that gene therapy is a promising technology to treat or even cure ...


Modified crops reveal hidden cost of resistance

Modified crops reveal hidden cost of resistance

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

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

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...


Promising results for rapid viral diagnosis tests in emergency rooms

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Rapid viral diagnosis tests for respiratory diseases in children who arrive in emergency departments have the potential to reduce pressures on health systems by enabling doctors to reach a quicker diagnosis, according to ...


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 ...


Scientists develop mathematical model to predict the immune response to influenza

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Rochester have developed a mathematical model to predict immune responses to infection with influenza A viruses, including novel viruses such as the emergent 2009 influenza A (H1N1). This ...


New research may help to design better gene therapy vectors

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created Oct 07, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research published by scientists from the University of Reading may offer an insight into ways of making safer and more specific gene therapy vectors. The research, published in the journal Nature Structural an ...


Sick fish may get sicker: Climate change and other stresses expected to affect entire populations of fish

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Entire populations of North American fish already are being affected by several emerging diseases, a problem that threatens to increase in the future with climate change and other stresses on aquatic ecosystems, according ...


Technology identified could reduce the spread of rice virus

Discovery could lead to better rice yields

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created Feb 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Building on plant virus research started more than 20 years ago, a biologist at Washington University in St. Louis and his a colleague at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis ...


Genomic signature in blood identifies underlying viral infection

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists have identified a genomic "signature" in circulating blood that reveals exposure to common upper respiratory viruses, like the cold or flu, even before symptoms appear.



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