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Especially now with the COVID-19 vaccine patent waiver debate, it comes to our mind the relationship between patent system and access to medicine. As in all... Read More »
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Owner and operator of everybody's favorite internet text field, Google, continues to make news as it branches farther away from its... Read More »
Clean energy development is proving to be a more innovative reality at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab. Scientists have developed a way to generate power using harmless... Read More »
Scientists have discovered a molecular “switch” that directly activates the production of a potent class of virus killers. Bruton’s tyrosine kinase... Read More »
A controversial study of the H5N1 bird flu virus has been published today in the journal Nature. The study, and similar one that will be published in Science, sparked ... Read More »
Scientists from around the world, including researchers at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB), have found a way to potentially prevent food poisoning outbreaks by identifying... Read More »
Through studying humans who have been infected with the dengue virus, scientists have pinpointed the region on the virus that is neutralized in those who beat the... Read More »
A harmless virus may be able to boost the effects of two standard chemotherapy drugs. RT3D, trade name Reolysin, is a new drug developed by Oncolytics Biotech. It is... Read More »
A new study shows that women who have been infected by two different strains of HIV from two different sexual partners -- a condition known as HIV superinfection --... Read More »
Brain tumor cells infected with a cancer-killing virus release a protein that warns other tumor cells of the impending infection and enables them to mount a defense... Read More »
A team of researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have successfully brought latent HIV infection out of hiding, with a drug used to treat... Read More »
Scientists from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have discovered evidence of a new influenza type A virus in Guatemalan fruit bats. While they... Read More »
A small group of global public health and influenza experts at a WHO-convened meeting extended the temporary moratorium on research with new laboratory-modified H5N1... Read More »
Scientists have developed a technique which could form the basis of a non-invasive diagnostic for Adenovirus – a virus responsible for a large number of common... Read More »
An international research team, including scientists from the University of Rochester, discovered the mechanism by which a protein protects some immune cells from... Read More »
According to a new study, researchers at the University of Georgia (UGA) were able to identify key host cell pathways needed by influenza virus for replication. This... Read More »
Researchers at Michigan State University have demonstrated how a new virus evolves, shedding light on how easy it can be for diseases to gain dangerous mutations. The ... Read More »
Comments
Richard NoguchiInteresting to see how something so microscopic can have so much complexity to it.
Jan 27, 2012
Andrei IvanovViruses have always been both terrifying and utterly compelling to watch evolve.
Jan 27, 2012
Researchers at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), part of the National Institutes of Health, have developed a new way... Read More »