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Their smell might not be very encouraging, but scientists put all their hopes in the antimicrobial peptides, widely known as bacteria-killers found on the skin of "odorous" frogs. Experts have reached the conclusion that nine species of Chinese frogs have super powers, when it comes to fighting stubborn infections, o... |
2 December 2011
10:35 GMT |
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The West Nile Virus (WNV) can be transmitted by birds and mosquitoes, but researchers have recently discovered that only particular species play determining roles in guiding the spread of infection. In these birds, for example, feeding patterns dictate the spread of WNV over a new territory.
In a paper published in ... |
21 October 2011
03:59 GMT |
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A group of researchers has established that men and women who tested positive for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are 96 percent less likely to infect their partners if they take antiretroviral drugs early on. The therapy needs to begin when the immune system is still healthy, say investigators with the intern... |
26 May 2011
07:43 GMT |
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It appears that the anti-social, anxious and depressed behaviors in people who are sick, have a perfectly good scientific explanation – this emotional chaos is caused by cytokines that have crossed into the brain.Cytokines are signaling molecules released by the immune system as a response to infection and stre... |
21 January 2011
10:33 GMT |
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A new study conducted by researchers from the University of Edinburgh, concluded that women who have had chlamydia, are at high risk of ectopic pregnancies, because of lasting effect of the infection.Chlamydia is the most common sexually transmitted disease in the United Kingdom, and even if it is treatable, it often... |
12 January 2011
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Rubeola, or measles, is one of the diseases that vaccination managed to almost eradicate from the civilized world. The condition is caused by infections with a paramyxovirus of the genus Morbillivirus, whose mechanisms of action have thus far remained hidden. A new study just shed light on them. Researchers at the Ma... |
10 January 2011
08:30 GMT |
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A new report made by researchers at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, and published early online, concluded that hospitalized children in the United States are more frequently becoming infected with the bacteria Clostridium difficile.The article explains that C. difficile c... |
4 January 2011
04:09 GMT |
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University of Minnesota researchers carried out a study that concluded there might be a way of preventing HIV from infecting human cells.HIV binds and destroys a certain human antiviral protein called APOBEC3F, and the U of M team figured out how, and said that a simple chemical change could turn APOBEC3F into a mor... |
23 December 2010
05:24 GMT |
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Chupacabras are mysterious creatures that attack and drink the blood of livestock, especially goats, or at least this is what people believed until now.Barry Oconnor, a biologist from the University of Michigan, says that the real monster is not the hairless, fanged animal that attacks goats, but rather a small eight... |
22 October 2010
05:58 GMT |
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This is a Warcraft III: Frozen Throne map that was created using the Felwood tileset with a size of 128x192 of which only 98x173 playable.Be a virus and kill an entire person. Take over cells and reproduce, then destroy the vital organs (stomach, heart and brain). If you take over the stomach, bacteria can enter the... |
30 September 2010
11:52 GMT |
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People should know better not to take antibiotics when having a viral infection, but the most concerning thing is when actual doctors make this mistake on their patients.A study published in the November issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, concluded that doctors are frequently misusing antibiotics w... |
23 September 2010
10:28 GMT |
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A new research carried out by scientists at the University of Nottingham, found out that in Staphylococcus aureus infections, bacteria that do not communicate with their infection-causing partners stop producing toxins.All bacteria work together and have a certain way of communicating – a system called Quorum S... |
6 September 2010
03:20 GMT |
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The HIV virus uses the brain as its hiding place, according to studies of the spinal fluid of patients under HIV treatment, a new thesis from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, concludes.Researchers say that about 10 percent of patients had traces of the virus in their spinal fluid nut no sign of it in the blood, ... |
23 August 2010
08:31 GMT |
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For better defining changes in the human immune system in response to infection or to vaccination, the United States will grant a total of $100 million to six US-based Human Immune Phenotyping Centers for research using human and not animal studies.The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act supports the first year of... |
12 August 2010
05:54 GMT |
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The medical dressing will release antibiotics from nanocapsules, activated by the presence of disease-causing pathogenic bacteria, targeting treatment before the infection aggravates. The advanced wound dressing will also change color when the antibiotics are released, thus alerting doctors that an infection is prese... |
8 July 2010
02:51 GMT |
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Scientists at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine have been recently able to determine that Lake Superior is contaminated with a very dangerous viral agent, called the viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus, or VHSV. While relatively safe for humans – despite being from the same class of pathogens... |
29 January 2010
01:40 GMT |
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Leishmaniasis is a disfiguring tropical disease, in which a trypanosome protozoa agent infecting the human body essentially eats away the flesh, causing severe wounds and, if left untreated, even death. For a long time, experts have wondered exactly how the microorganism thrives in the body without being challenged b... |
26 August 2009
06:46 GMT |
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It seems that the adoption of smartphones during the past few years and their continuous growth in the future could easily offer more possibilities for mobile viruses to spread into the wild. Currently, there are more than 600 mobile viruses known to exist, which raises the risk of getting infected when using a high... |
25 April 2009
06:40 GMT |
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It’s been years that Michael Jackson has been wearing a mask whenever he goes out, so the sight of it should not make anyone cry “disease” anymore, it has been said. However, a photo of the actor snapped just recently has sparked again talk of a flesh-eating infection, with sources close to Michael ... |
12 February 2009
12:42 GMT |
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Many parents find themselves in a strange situation when they wake up in the morning and find their child has a runny nose, or that he or she sneezes or coughs. While these might seem like the symptoms of the common cold or the flu, some of them send their kids to school that day nonetheless, as they say that missing... |
10 February 2009
03:05 GMT |
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Scientists from Australia's Centenary Institute managed to film the way the immune system actually responds to infections in real time, using state-of-the-art modern technology. They watched skin activity for a while, after which time they introduced the Leishmania parasite in the skin and watched how the pathog... |
4 December 2008
06:03 GMT |
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The computer virus outbreak that crippled the network operation of three hospitals in London last month is almost over. The administration announced that around 97% of the 5,000 computers on the network were operational again. A rare incident of computer malware affecting medical facilities took shape on Novemb... |
2 December 2008
05:25 GMT |
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NASA confirmed, at a recent space operations meeting (ISS 30P SORR), that a worm had been discovered on laptops on the International Space Station. Even if NASA has not disclosed its name, the malware in question appears to be W32.Gammima.AG and it spreads by copying itself to removable devices. The NASA officials no... |
27 August 2008
19:24 GMT |
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Viruses have always been part of our evolutionary process, constantly mutating in order to defeat the immune system, at the same time triggering changes in the structure of the DNA, which eventually gave us defense mechanisms that still work today. Some types of viruses, known as retroviruses, even have the capabilit... |
22 July 2008
10:47 GMT |
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Although the first dengue viral infection is painful, it is often harmless. However, if contracted for a second time, it can turn deadly. With all that, there are some cases in which getting infected for the second time with the dengue virus can in fact be beneficial for the body, helping the immune system fight both... |
16 July 2008
11:14 GMT |
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Some people say that anti-viruses are must-have applications because computer infections, no matter if we're talking about viruses, Trojan horses or any type of malware, have become extremely dangerous and may even damage hardware components. However, a security expert considers that buying such an application i... |
23 May 2008
08:47 GMT |
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Not long after we informed you of the SQL injection threat that has been found last week loose on the web, a new similar massive attack compromises more than half a million websites. As reported on the TrendLabs Malware blog, the threat comes in the form of a standard SQL injection, which some of you might already ha... |
15 May 2008
10:26 GMT |
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A report conducted by PandaLabs a month ago revealed that approximately 1 in 5 home computers which have up-to-date security software installed were infected and according to the security company, the situation is almost the same today. According to the findings of the study which included 1.5 million users, 72 perce... |
15 May 2008
05:46 GMT |
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Today's hackers use extremely advanced techniques, which makes it quite difficult to block their attacks and prevent similar actions in the future. But what's worse is that more and more attacks are now relying on web-based malware which obviously affect thousands of pages and their visitors. According to a... |
13 May 2008
06:32 GMT |
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If you work in the military and think your email is safe, think again. A rather large scheme has been recently detected by security researchers at the Romanian company BitDefender. The company's head of AV Research, Sorin Dudea, has declared "It's not every day that you stumble on the workings of an honest-... |
6 May 2008
10:49 GMT |
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Security company Sophos has just published the latest Security Threat Report concerning the first quarter of 2008, revealing that a new malicious website is now detected and blocked every five seconds. This is a time decrease of 9 seconds as the company detected similar websites every 14 seconds, according to the 200... |
22 April 2008
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There are bacteria everywhere around us, and in infinite quantities. Some are good, some are neutral, but most people have in mind only the bad ones. 1. Tetanus is caused by the bacterium Clostridium tetani. It enters the body via an open wound and releases a powerful toxin, tetanospasmin. The incubation period lasts... |
14 April 2008
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Security company ESET, the creator of the well-known NOD32 antivirus, published the "Global Threat Trend - March 2008" report, underlining, once again, that our USB sticks are in danger due to the popularity of INF/Autorun. Thus, no less than 10.3 percent of the total number of threats discovered in March 2008 was re... |
11 April 2008
17:31 GMT |
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Security company Sophos has published an advisory concerning one of the most popular instant messaging clients on the web, namely Yahoo Messenger. According to the security notification, there's a new worm spotted in the wild which only targets Yahoo Messenger users and attempts to propagate by sending links of ... |
11 April 2008
10:37 GMT |
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Scientists still debate if they are alive or not, but look what they can inflict in us (and this is just a selection of the most common ones):1. Flue is caused by a virus transmitted through air. The incubation lasts 1-2 days. The symptoms include fever, cough, loss of appetite, headaches. Ordinary flue can be treate... |
11 April 2008
10:13 GMT |
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Human habits are extremely diverse worldwide. But some really leave you stunned. And while we are searching for remote galaxies and worlds in the sky, some things seem to belong to other worlds. You can imagine the shock of Shamsunnahar Hena, a gynecologist in a Bangladesh hospital, when her pregnant patient said she... |
2 April 2008
14:21 GMT |
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HIV does not kill by itself. It just leaves humans defenseless against other killers. About 50% of all HIV-positive African adults die of Salmonella infection, a disease that otherwise is treated after a seven-day bout of diarrhea. A new research made at UC Davis School of Medicine and published in the "Nature Medici... |
25 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Maybe some people believe syphilis is something from the past, but this would be a big mistake: a new research published in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases shows that our negligence enabled the old deadly sexual bug to have a spectacular comeback in developed countries, boosted by drug consumption and high-ris... |
21 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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'Things just ain't the same for gangsters,' Dr Dre said in his album, 2001. He couldn't have said it better to explain the situation AvSoft Technologies' situation even if he had wanted to. It seems it's not enough to be developing antivirus software in order to protect your clients'... |
11 February 2008
16:06 GMT |
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Google has long been the target to many attacks and on the odd occasion it redirects to infected pages. This was the case noticed last week, of many Google Groups links that supposedly had pictures or movies of stars performing various actions (more into the pr0n area, none were giving money away to charity). That wa... |
5 February 2008
12:31 GMT |
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Every race has a different gene pool impacting the vulnerability or resistance to various diseases. A new research published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine shows that blacks are twice more likely to die of severe sepsis (a general blood infection connected to acute organ dysfunction... |
5 February 2008
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You have heard about blood groups. And you've been told about blood incompatibility: put A, B or AB blood type into an O type receiver, and you will kill him/her. But this new case published in The New England Journal of Medicine has amazed the scientific world and it is an absolute first.A 15 years old Australi... |
25 January 2008
02:39 GMT |
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The Windows functions are always under attack because disabling a vital function of the operating system automatically means an open door for the hacker, who would be able to infiltrate into the computer and conduct his malicious activities. Today, a new worm has been spotted in the wild and, according to security co... |
24 January 2008
14:16 GMT |
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Most of the semen is produced by this gland located at the base of the bladder: the prostate. And here is the issue: up to 50 % of the American males (and not only) will have prostatitis during their lifetimes. About 5 to 10 have it at a particular time. This condition denotes infection or inflammation of the prost... |
24 January 2008
05:14 GMT |
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On one hand, vaginal sex is the main entrance gate for the HIV into our bodies; on the other hand, women in many countries (like Sub-Saharan Africa) have little control on imposing safe sex (read condom use). That's why this new research made at the UT Southwestern Medical Center, U.S., could save millions of l... |
18 January 2008
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You may call pizza any thick mass of dough with added ordinary cheese and, a crime for any real pizza connoisseur, ketchup. But real pizza is made with mozzarella cheese, a delicacy made from the fat rich water buffalo milk. Now, the Italian production of mozzarella is threatened by a deadly disease spreading th... |
18 January 2008
06:08 GMT |
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Diseases can be genetic or (most often) determined by the environmental factors. World Health Organization says that annually 25 million adults and children die of causes that could be prevented. 1.Clime. Too hot or too cold is bad. In warm climes, hot weather makes people experience "tiredness", fainting, lack of e... |
11 January 2008
14:31 GMT |
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And... it's here! What seems to be the first Trojan targeting your bank account information is finally here! TROJ_BANKER.MQH comes with a medium damage potential, which underlines the Trojan's capability to reach its goals, in our case - stealing the bank account info. According to security vendor Trend Mic... |
10 January 2008
16:06 GMT |
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It has an 8" high resolution (800x600) and comes with 128MB of built-in memory. It supports CF type (I and II), SD, XD, MS and MMC. It is able to insert multiple transition effects and background music during slide shows. It costs only $129.87 and if you buy it right now, you also get a FREE computer infection that i... |
10 January 2008
09:13 GMT |
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A few days ago, the first iPhone threat spotted in the wild made the tour of the virtual world, as security companies warned the owners of the Apple device that a fake firmware update might be more dangerous than they had expected. But before getting into today's piece of news, let's do some recap. As you m... |
10 January 2008
05:32 GMT |
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