News tagged with common cold virus

New research aims to shut down viral assembly line

Under the electron microscope, a coronavirus may resemble a spiny sea urchin or appear crownlike, (the shape from which this family of pathogens takes its name). Previously recognized as the second leading ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Vaccine blocks cocaine high in mice

Researchers have produced a lasting anti-cocaine immunity in mice by giving them a safe vaccine that combines bits of the common cold virus with a particle that mimics cocaine.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 04, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists unveil structure of adenovirus, the largest high-resolution complex ever found

After more than a decade of research, Scripps Research Institute scientists have pieced together the structure of a human adenovirus—the largest complex ever determined at atomic resolution. The new findings ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 26, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researcher finds there could be up to 200 cold viruses

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bad news for the immune system: New research has boosted the number of likely common-cold viruses waiting to make you miserable from the long-accepted 100 to perhaps double that number.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

UQ researcher on the hunt for viruses

(PhysOrg.com) -- UQ scientist Ian Mackay is always on the lookout for that lucky find - well, if you consider unknown strains of the common cold virus lucky.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers progress toward AIDS vaccine

Rutgers AIDS researchers Gail Ferstandig Arnold and Eddy Arnold may have turned a corner in their search for a HIV vaccine. In a paper just published in the Journal of Virology, the husband and wife duo and ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Sequences capture the code of the common cold

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an effort to confront our most familiar malady, scientists have deciphered the instruction manual for the common cold.

Biology /

created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 4