News tagged with dengue fever virus

No more free rides for 'piggy-backing' viruses

Scientists have determined the structure of the enzyme endomannosidase, significantly advancing our understanding of how a group of devastating human viruses including HIV and Hepatitis C hijack human enzymes to reproduce ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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Scientists identify odor molecules that hamper mosquitoes' host-seeking behavior

Female mosquitoes are efficient carriers of deadly diseases such as malaria, dengue and yellow fever, resulting each year in several million deaths and hundreds of millions of cases.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Scientists identify antivirus system

(PhysOrg.com) -- Viruses have led scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis to the discovery of a security system in host cells.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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Mosquito monitoring saves lives and money, analysis finds

Cutting surveillance for mosquito-borne diseases would likely translate into an exponential increase in both the number of human cases and the health costs when a disease outbreak occurs, according to an analysis by Emory ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

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Dengue-resistant mosquitoes to be released next year

(PhysOrg.com) -- Every year, dengue fever infects up to 100 million people and kills more than 20,000 of them. In an effort to reduce these numbers, scientists have infected mosquitoes with bacteria that makes ...

Biology / Biotechnology

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New understanding of dengue fever could help with vaccine

Some of the human immune system's defences against the virus that causes dengue fever actually help the virus to infect more cells, according to new research published today in the journal Science.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

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Flightless mosquitoes developed to help control dengue fever

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new strain of mosquitoes in which females cannot fly may help curb the transmission of dengue fever, according to UC Irvine and British scientists.

Biology / Biotechnology

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Population movement can be critical factor in dengue's spread

Human movement is a key factor of dengue virus inflow in Rio de Janeiro, according to results from researchers based at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) in Brazil. The results, based on data from a severe epidemic in ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

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Rethinking the antibody-dependent enhancement dengue hemorrhagic fever model

Research published this week in PLoS Medicine challenges the dogma of the antibody-dependent enhancement model (ADE) for the development of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF).

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

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Singaporean scientists conduct world's first remote X-ray scattering experiment

On 26th May, Nanyang Technological University's School of Biological Science (SBS) will pioneer the world's first remotely controlled Solution X-Ray Scattering (SAXS) experiment. The experiment will be initiated from Singapore ...

Physics / General Physics

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Scientists identify host factors critical to dengue virus infection

By painstakingly silencing genes one at a time, scientists at Duke University Medical Center have identified dozens of proteins the dengue fever virus depends upon to grow and spread among mosquitoes and humans.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Working to eradicate dengue fever

(PhysOrg.com) -- A research project led by University of Notre Dame biologist Malcolm J. Fraser Jr. may soon lead to the eradication of dengue fever, a mosquito-borne viral disease that annually infects more ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

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Researchers determine how mosquitoes survive dengue virus infection

Colorado State University researchers have discovered that mosquitoes that transmit deadly viruses such as dengue avoid becoming ill by mounting an immediate, potent immune response. Because their immune system does not eliminate ...

Chemistry /

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