News tagged with virus genomes
Sequences capture the code of the common cold
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Feb 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In an effort to confront our most familiar malady, scientists have deciphered the instruction manual for the common cold.
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Camouflaging of viral DNA could be crucial step in progression of cancers
Feb 09, 2009 |
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An estimated 15% of cancer cases can be linked to a viral infection, however the biological changes that cause some asymptomatic carriers of a virus to develop full-blown tumors are not well understood. In a study published ...
Viruses evolve to play by host rules
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Mar 03, 2008 |
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Biologists at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University have examined the complete genomes of viruses that infect the bacteria E. coli, P. aeruginosa and L. lactis and have found that many of these viral genomes ...
Large scale flu virus sequencing completed
Oct 05, 2005 |
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Scientists at the Institute for Genomic Research in Maryland report completing the first large-scale project to sequence the influenza virus.
Rapid approach to identify influenza A virus mutations and drug resistance developed
May 28, 2009 |
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Genome Institute of Singapore scientists, led by Christopher Wong, Ph.D., have developed a novel approach to uncover the complete sequence of any influenza A virus, including H1NI, with just a quick nasal swab or nasal pharyngeal ...
Mane event: Recombination in lion feline immunodeficiency virus
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Feb 05, 2008 |
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Parts of feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) isolated from wild lions have undergone substantial genetic recombination, says research published in the online open access journal BMC Genomics. The sequencing of the two fu ...
Researchers sequence western H5N1 virus genomes
Apr 17, 2007 |
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In a paper in the May issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases, an international team of researchers report the first ever large-scale sequencing of western genomes of the deadly avian influenza virus, H5N1. ...
Visualizing virus replication in three dimensions
May 07, 2009 |
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Dengue fever is the most common infectious disease transmitted by mosquitoes - some 100 million people around the world are infected. Researchers at the Hygiene Institute at Heidelberg University Hospital ...
Evolution of influenza A virus
Dec 01, 2006 |
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An understanding of the evolutionary dynamics of the influenza virus determines scientists' ability to survey and control the virus.
Researchers decode structure of an entire HIV genome
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Aug 05, 2009 |
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The structure of an entire HIV genome has been decoded for the first time by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The results have widespread implications for understanding the strategies ...
Flu virus trots globe during off season
Sep 20, 2007 |
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The influenza A virus does not lie dormant during summer but migrates globally and mixes with other viral strains before returning to the Northern Hemisphere as a genetically different virus, according to biologists who say ...
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