Tag - pathogens

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Snap and trap: DNA panels click together to form tiny virus catchers

Scientists have designed DNA panels that can recognize specific viruses and clamp together around the pathogens, trapping the viral particles inside an impregnable DNA shell. Antibiotics can kill bacteria, but medicine...

18 June, 2021

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New vulnerability found in major human viruses

Structural feature may lead to antivirals for the common cold, polio, and other pathogens Discovery of a new feature of a large class of pathogenic viruses may allow development of new antiviral medications for the...

14 June, 2019

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Bug bite saliva hijacks immune cells to spread virus

A victim’s immunological defenses may rush to puncture sites and help carry pathogens throughout the body. Depending on your perspective, one of nature’s perverse ironies—or exquisite feats—is that some mosquito-borne...

24 June, 2016

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