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X-ray imaging of a single virus in 3-D

Since the determination of the molecular structure of myoglobin in 1957, X-ray crystallography has been the defining tool of structural biology, allowing researchers to determine the structure (and hence the function)...

6 March, 2015

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Aggressive swine flu virus hits India

A surge in swine flu infections has killed more than 800 people in India and is challenging health workers, who say the virus is harder to treat than the version that caused a global pandemic in 2009. High-risk patients...

3 March, 2015

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Research shows Asian herb holds promise as treatment for Ebola virus disease

New research that focuses on the mechanism by which Ebola virus infects a cell and the discovery of a promising drug therapy candidate is being published February 27, 2015, in the journal Science. Dr. Robert Davey...

3 March, 2015

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7 facts about vaccines that show why they’re one of the most important inventions in human history

There’s a disease spreading right now, a disease that until recently, we’d considered eliminated — something that wasn’t spreading anymore except in places where it was imported from outside the country. But as the...

3 March, 2015

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Aggressive new HIV virus strain in Cuba progresses to AIDS in less than 3 years

It’s been a little over 30 years since HIV/AIDS first emerged as one of the deadliest diseases known to man, and in that time we’ve made great strides toward eliminating it out for good. Awareness remains high, fewer...

23 February, 2015

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West Africa: Ebolanomics – the search for a vaccine

When Ebola hit West Africa last year, it was a disease with no sign of a vaccine or cure. To those affected that may have been an indication that the wider world didn’t care about them or the diseases that...

13 February, 2015

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Scientists ask if Ebola immunises as well as kills

A recent sharp drop in new Ebola infections in West Africa is prompting scientists to wonder whether the virus may be silently immunising some people at the same time as brutally killing their neighbours. So-called...

6 February, 2015

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Cancer-causing virus blocks human immune response, study shows

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of California at San Francisco have revealed how a type of cancer-causing virus called Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) outwits the human body’s immune...

2 February, 2015

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Evolutionary goal of Ebola virus is to become ‘more lethal’

A new study has revealed that the evolutionary goal of Ebola virus is to become “more lethal.” Scientists at the University of Liverpool looked at the Zaire Ebola strain, which is responsible for the current...

23 January, 2015

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Developing vaccines for insect-borne viruses

Vaccines developed using proteins rather than live viruses can help protect animals and subsequently humans from insect-borne viruses, according to Alan Young, chief scientific officer for Medgene Labs, an animal health...

21 January, 2015

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