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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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‘Defective’ virus surprisingly plays major role in spread of disease

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...

1 March, 2013

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Drug halts flu virus spread

In an effort to combat drug-resistant flu virus strains, researchers have developed a new class of drug that prevents the virus from spreading between cells. When the flu virus infects a cell, it binds to the cell and...

1 March, 2013

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Scientists develop new drug effective against drug-resistant influenza

Scientists writing in the journal Science say they have found a new class of influenza drug, effective against drug-resistant strains of the flu virus. University of British Columbia (UBC) researchers published details...

1 March, 2013

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New flu vaccine? Drug shuts down resistant strains of influenza virus

Researchers show that DFSAs, a new class of influenza drug, can inactivate drug-resistant strains of the flu virus by shutting down a key enzyme. Researchers from the University of British Columbia led a study that was...

26 February, 2013

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Virus found in 2001 hospitalizes kids at same rate as flu

A respiratory virus that was unknown to doctors until 2001, and has no treatment, causes the same severity of illness in young children as the flu, according to the largest study to estimate the infection’s U.S...

26 February, 2013

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Euro studies show flu vaccine working best against type B

New European studies, reported in Eurosurveillance, suggest that this year’s influenza vaccine is providing good protection against influenza B viruses but only moderate protection against type A—findings more or...

16 February, 2013

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WHO makes no change to risk assessment for novel coronavirus

The recent infection of a patient in England with a SARS-like virus did not change the World Health Organization’s risk assessment of the novel coronavirus. The WHO said that the new case, however, does indicate that...

15 February, 2013

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