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UCLA researchers predict hotspots for future outbreaks of influenza virus

This year’s unusually long and rocky flu season would be nothing compared to the pandemic that could occur if bird flu became highly contagious among humans, which is why UCLA researchers and their colleagues are...

18 March, 2013

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Scientists find how deadly new virus infects human cells

Scientists have worked out how a deadly new virus which was unknown in humans until last year is able to infect human cells and cause severe, potentially fatal damage to the lungs. In one of the first detailed studies...

18 March, 2013

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Scientists seek ‘super vaccine’ for newborns

Researchers have discovered a compound that could help protect the health of newborns when they are most vulnerable to infection. The compound — a vaccine additive — could make immunizations more effective...

14 March, 2013

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New clues to how flu virus spreads

People are generally surprised to learn that scientists don’t know for sure how flu spreads,” says Donald Milton, M.D., Dr.P.H., who directs the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health and led...

14 March, 2013

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Some brain cells are better virus fighters

Viruses often spread through the brain in patchwork patterns, infecting some cells but missing others. New research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis helps explain why. The scientists showed that...

13 March, 2013

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‘Defective’ virus plays major role in spread of disease, UCLA scientists report

Defective viruses, thought for decades to be essentially garbage unrelated to the transmission of normal viruses, now appear able to play an important role in the spread of disease, new research by UCLA life scientists...

12 March, 2013

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CDC warns health officials to be alert for deadly new virus

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned state and local health officials about potential infections from a deadly virus previously unseen in humans that has now sickened 14 people and killed eight...

12 March, 2013

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Huge breakthrough in HIV research brings us closer to a vaccine

A team of Spanish researchers say they have made an important breakthrough in HIV research, developing a new vaccine against the virus that is significantly more effective than earlier attempts. Advancing vaccine...

11 March, 2013

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Influenza virus: Being the most beneficial mutation is no guarantee of long-term genetic success, research finds

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute scientists have used computer modelling to understand why some mutations in a virus gene rise to dominance and become ‘fixed’ in the genome of the virus, while others die out...

10 March, 2013

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High-tech images show how viruses infect cells

As people around the world contend with illnesses caused by viruses, including this year’s strain of the flu or influenza, researchers continue to study how viruses work and how they manage to invade living cells...

10 March, 2013

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