News tagged with common cold

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

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

Common Cold Symptoms Not Washed Away by Nose Irrigation

Washing out your nose with a spray or spout of salt water is safe and might even get you back to work sooner after a cold or acute sinus infection. However, there is not enough evidence to show that it can reduce your symptoms ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 17, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Adult gut can generate new neurons

The adult lower digestive tract can be stimulated to add neurons to the intestinal system, according to new mouse research in the August 5 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The study shows that drugs similar to the ne ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | 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

There are no cures for the common cold

Americans catch an estimated 1 billion colds each year. And by this time of year, as weary cold sufferers line up at local pharmacies, it may not sound surprising that Americans spend at least $4.2 billion annually on over-the-counter ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 21, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Zinc reduces the burden of the common cold

Zinc supplements reduce the severity and duration of illness caused by the common cold, according to a systematic review published in The Cochrane Library. The findings could help reduce the amount of time lost from work a ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Calif. whooping cough: 9 dead, infections on rise (Update)

(AP) -- State health officials reported Thursday that California is on track to break a 55-year record for whooping cough infections in an epidemic that has already claimed the lives of nine infants.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Sep 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 38

Doctors advised to curtail antibiotic dosages

It's a common scene: Mom brings aching child with some bug to the doctor's office, expecting the doctor to do, well, something.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

New study of human pancreases links virus to cause of type 1 diabetes

A team of researchers from the Peninsula Medical School in the South West of England, the University of Brighton and the Department of Pathology at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, has found that a common family of viruses (enteroviruses) ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 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