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Being able to recharge your mobile devices as you do everyday tasks is something that was recently brought closer to reality by experts at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
Scientists here announce the creation of an electricity generator that uses harmles... |
14 May 2012
04:58 GMT |
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Throughout northern Europe, scientists and local authorities are dealing with the emergence of a new virus. The microorganism attacks cattle, sheep and goats, and causes females to display fetal malformations during pregnancy, or give birth to dead offspring.
Epidemiologists are currently working as hard as they ca... |
17 January 2012
18:31 GMT |
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A group of experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, says that its latest study on influenza's ability to mutate under pressure has revealed the phenomenon underlying it, called antigenic drift. The work could lead to the development of a final vaccine against the flu.
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20 December 2011
09:24 GMT |
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A group of scientists at the University of California in Berkeley (UCB) say that they were recently able to develop a method for handling benign, filamentous viruses called M13 phages. The approach enables the team to use the viral agents as structural building blocks for new materials.
The finding could have a s... |
20 October 2011
03:59 GMT |
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Sewers are apparently a fertile breeding ground for viruses. In a new investigation, an international team of scientists managed to discover thousands of previously-unknown microorganisms, of which many could have negative impacts on human health.
The work was carried out by experts with the Washington University... |
6 October 2011
05:44 GMT |
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The conclusions of a new series of phase I clinical trials show that a new vaccine developed against the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) manages to elicit immune responses in 90 percent of patients. About 85 percent of test subjects display the same response 12 months later.
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28 September 2011
10:43 GMT |
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American investigators have determined that the vaccinia virus construct GLV-1h153 – a genetically engineered viral agent – holds great promise for imaging and treating pancreatic tumors, one of the most dangerous forms of cancer.
What makes this new lead so promising is the fact that it could allow o... |
21 September 2011
05:58 GMT |
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For many years, experts have believed that organisms change in order to adapt to adversities in their environment, including microbial invaders. But new discoveries are showing that species of viruses can coexist with certain species of algae for several centuries. The weird thing about this is that the neither of th... |
22 July 2011
08:09 GMT |
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After studies first discovered the existence of potent antibodies in the bodies of some people infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), experts are now gearing up to begin an effort of turning these molecules into a potent vaccine. Like all other viruses, HIV infects the body, and triggers a response fro... |
18 July 2011
08:28 GMT |
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Viruses are known to be the most widespread invaders on the planet. Some of them are specialized in attacking animals, including humans, and others mostly attack plants. But a new study looks at the more common, yet less-understood instances when viruses infect bacteria.An entire class of viral agents, called bacteri... |
1 July 2011
05:55 GMT |
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A group of investigators in the United States recently managed to demonstrate that it is possible to use a computational approach to design working proteins capable of fighting viruses. This was never shown to be possible before, experts in the team say.
The newly-developed antiviral protein cannot be found in na... |
16 May 2011
02:26 GMT |
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A team of experts in the United States announces the development of a new type of virus that can selectively target and infect cancer cells, delivery drugs as it does so. The discovery could be used to treat several types of cancer, the team behind the research believes.The research group managed to get the new agent... |
12 May 2011
07:51 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific investigation, it would appear that taking antibiotics to treat viruses such as the common cold or the flu makes the microorganisms stronger, rather than destroy them. These are very important results, and ones that people need to listen to.Now that self-medication has... |
15 March 2011
04:34 GMT |
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A group of investigators announces the discovery of a new possible method of boosting people's memory. The catch is that the technique involves injecting a genetically-engineered virus directly into the human brain. As such, those who are bad with names, or who easily forget things, might want to wait for a litt... |
4 March 2011
05:30 GMT |
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Microorganisms are apparently teaming up against humans, the results of a new study suggest. Experts have found evidence that a parasite's ability to harm the people it infects is considerably boosted if the organism itself is infected with viruses. The research team that conducted the new work is based at the U... |
11 February 2011
05:12 GMT |
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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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Bacteria have been alive on this planet for billions of years, and the main reason for that is this fact that they were able to adapt themselves to threats from other microorganisms, and also to drastic changes in their living conditions. A new study suggests other factors might be at play too. A Texas A&M University... |
27 December 2010
09:44 GMT |
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A group of researchers from the United Kingdom announce a major discovery in the fight against common cold, that could see the disease finally eradicated once and for all. The scientists demonstrated that the pathogen can be attacked and destroyed by the immune system after it has penetrated the cellular nucleus, whi... |
2 November 2010
08:04 GMT |
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A team of investigators announces that an ancient chimp virus has been revived so that researchers could study it in peace. Analyzing these organisms in the same manner as all other viruses are analyzed is extremely important for scientists. Experts turn their attention to ancient pathogens which are known as endogen... |
26 October 2010
09:17 GMT |
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For many years, healthcare experts have been recommending the drug AZT to HIV/AIDS patients, but at every turn the viral agent appeared to be able to elude the effects of the chemical. Now experts know how this is possible. In a new scientific investigation, researchers at the Rutgers University managed to identify t... |
20 September 2010
07:07 GMT |
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A new genetic analysis has revealed that flu strains do not die off during the summer months, but rather they elope warm regions, and move to where conditions can ensure their survival.All around the world, the autumn months are associated with the onset of the flu season. Regardless of when autumn comes – time... |
10 September 2010
04:44 GMT |
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For years, researchers have been unable to image the viruses they were trying so hard to destroy, but now not only has that become possible, but they can also use the microorganisms to deliver drugs.This is possible thanks to efforts by a team of investigators based at the University of California in los Angeles (UCL... |
1 September 2010
06:10 GMT |
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A team of researchers from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) say that the elimination of the smallpox vaccine in 1980 allows for a relative of the dangerous virus to develop, and begin infecting susceptible populations.Three decades ago, the world was happy to have gotten rid of the smallpox virus, w... |
31 August 2010
05:49 GMT |
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A team of investigators may have just found a way of preventing the immune system from providing exaggerated reactions in a host of situations. The findings could help save numerous lives.The dysfunctional immune response that the investigators wanted to address is responsible for a host of extremely severe events, s... |
27 August 2010
11:15 GMT |
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A team of investigators announces the development of a new observations method, which allows microbiologists to observe single viral cells within the human body. The innovation could have tremendous consequences for the field of medicine. In microbiology, knowing which organism you're up against means that half ... |
27 August 2010
04:47 GMT |
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Most cells in the human body can be conditioned to revert back to a state called pluripotent. This means that they can then be made to develop back into any kind of cells present in the organisms from which they were extracted. This ability is absolutely essential for developing all sorts of new treatments, given tha... |
26 July 2010
10:16 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking first, a scientist managed to infect himself with a computer virus. The malicious code took refuge in a chip that Mark Gasson, a researcher at the University of Reading, had placed in his hand. From this location, the virus was transmitted to a computer in the scientist's lab, from where it c... |
27 May 2010
06:45 GMT |
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A variety of drug-resistant viruses may have just found their match, researchers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) say. Working in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Buffalo, the experts managed to devise a new means of delivering a drug payload to cells that relies on using... |
25 May 2010
10:06 GMT |
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In a new series of investigations, researchers have determined that the HIV-like virus which infects monkeys, but which does not really affect its hosts too much, is a lot older than first suspected. It was found that the microorganism first appeared at least 100,000 years ago, although it may have been “aboard... |
24 May 2010
04:08 GMT |
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A group of British investigators has recently determined that specific strands of human DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) tend to act against their “owner” when viruses invade, helping the pathogens instead. Through this mechanism, the viral agents can infect a host more readily and with ease, thus setting the ... |
26 April 2010
07:02 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces the development of a new method of breaking down water, a critical stage required for turning the chemical into hydrogen fuel. The process is similar to photosynthesis, the technique plants use to break down sunlight and nutrients... |
12 April 2010
10:17 GMT |
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During research on retroviruses, a doctoral student currently at the University of British Columbia, in Canada, discovered a never-before-observed mechanism of inhibiting this class of organisms. This family of viruses contains that dreaded, and often fatal, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the one that promotes t... |
8 April 2010
19:01 GMT |
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Whenever a strain of bacteria, a virus or a microbe decide to enter the human body, they immediately subject themselves to the actions of the immune system. With very few exceptions, as in pathogens that are known to be deadly, immune cells manage to destroy all these invaders, by binding to them, consuming them, and... |
26 March 2010
05:46 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking new finding, researchers have discovered the “safehouse” that HIV cells use to hide when the patient they infect undergoes therapy. These viral cells are notoriously hard to destroy, and researchers knew that they had to be laying dormant somewhere, just waiting for the opportune momen... |
8 March 2010
02:31 GMT |
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In a new paper appearing in the March issue of the respected Journal of General Virology, Japanese researchers from the Saga University reveal some of the secrets associated with how viral agents are able to move past the species barrier. This ability implies that viruses infecting one type of mammal can, for example... |
12 February 2010
16:11 GMT |
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Scientists at Oncolytics Biotech Inc., a Calgary, Canada-based company, announce that they are in the final stages of developing a new type of viral therapy against many forms of cancerous cells. They add that the method relies on using a certain type of usually harmless virus against tumors, which is able to morph i... |
11 February 2010
03:58 GMT |
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The vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) is one of the most interesting negative-strand RNA viruses out there today, for the simple reason that it can be used for a wide variety of purposes. For starters, it gives researchers more clues about the life cycle this class of microorganisms has. This is very important because... |
10 February 2010
19:41 GMT |
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A new scientific research has revealed another hidden ability our immune systems have. The work evidenced the mechanism employed by our body's natural defense mechanism in “learning” the identity of a pathogen, a feature that allows immune cells to respond faster and more effective the next time arou... |
29 January 2010
16:11 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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Scientists have for a long time wondered how is it that viral agents seem to have this remarkable ability of spreading throughout the hosts they infect with such great speed. Impressive funding and numerous work hours were allotted to figuring this out, and all these investments appear to have finally paid off. Resea... |
23 January 2010
03:29 GMT |
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Researchers at the La Jolla, California-based Salk Institute for Biological Studies have recently determined one of the key mechanisms the herpes simplex virus (HSV) uses to keep cells unaware of the fact that it has infected them. This “covert” approach to infecting the human body is very efficient, the ... |
21 January 2010
03:46 GMT |
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Researchers from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern) argue in a new scientific paper that appendicitis may in fact be caused by a viral infection of some sort. The condition refers to the inflammation of the appendix, a protuberance in the gut that is believed to be holding a safety ... |
19 January 2010
15:01 GMT |
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For many years, scientists have been looking for an explanation to characterize a condition that they termed Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). Basically, people suffering from it are very tired all the time, and also exhibit a host of other symptoms for which doctors can find no biological explanation. Last year, a res... |
7 January 2010
08:41 GMT |
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Microbiologists keeping an eye on the world of viruses have recently discovered the largest such organism known. Dubbed Marseillevirus, the structure is in fact a mix-up of genetic bits and pieces, and is highly unlikely to hold on to its position as the world's largest virus for a very long time. Amoebas are kn... |
9 December 2009
03:39 GMT |
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A new statistical estimate shows that, by closing schools, authorities could potentially prevent up to 21 percent of new swine flu cases. The investigation was conducted in eight European countries, and scientists determined that schools were one of the main ways through which the viral strain infected additional pop... |
28 November 2009
06:13 GMT |
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A-H1N1 is the influenza strain that is responsible for the current swine flu pandemic, which has already stretched across the world and claimed thousands of lives. Although it carries a higher degree of danger as opposed to the “standard” strains, it is not unlike them in the way it acts. That is to say, ... |
24 November 2009
17:01 GMT |
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A new scientific study conducted in the Antarctic has revealed that numerous species of viruses exist in the continent's lakes. Some of the new organisms were previously unknown, and researchers say that they are surprised to have discovered such large diversity in a seemingly-harsh place. The thing about Antarc... |
6 November 2009
17:31 GMT |
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While the World Health Organization (WHO) is painting a dire image of the new influenza outbreak, there are voices that say the situation is not nearly as bad as official announcements would have it. Regardless of where the truth lies, the main question on everybody's lips now is whether they should be getting t... |
29 October 2009
10:38 GMT |
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In the largest clinical trial aimed at observing the effects of a new, combo vaccine against the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), results were only moderately successful. Two older vaccines were combined in the current studies, so that scientists could assess their efficiency when working together. But the effort ... |
25 September 2009
18:41 GMT |
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One of the most basic principles in quantum physics is that an object in a closed system with no observers can exist in more than one states at the same time. This was made clear in 1935 by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, who proposed his famous cat example. Now, experts are planning to perform the same se... |
11 September 2009
04:42 GMT |
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