News tagged with dengue virus
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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.
Jun 01, 2011 |
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Possible new route to fight dengue virus pointed
Researchers have identified enzymes and biochemical compounds called lipids that are targeted and modified by the dengue virus during infection, suggesting a potential new approach to control the aggressive ...
Mar 22, 2012 |
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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 ...
Jan 04, 2012 |
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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
Apr 22, 2009 |
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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 ...
Oct 10, 2010 |
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How fruit flies can teach us about curing chronic pain and halting mosquito-borne diseases
Studies of a protein that fruit flies use to sense heat and chemicals may someday provide solutions to human pain and the control of disease-spreading mosquitoes.
Dec 06, 2011 |
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Scientists discover how dengue virus infects cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- National Institutes of Health researchers have discovered a key step in how the dengue virus infects a cell. The discovery one day may lead to new drugs to prevent or treat the infection.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 12, 2010 |
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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.
Feb 22, 2010 |
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Scientists find bacterium can halt dengue virus transmission
Dengue fever -- caused by a virus transmitted by mosquitoes -- threatens 2.5 billion people each year and there is no vaccine or treatment. New research by Michigan State University entomologists has found that a bacterium ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 01, 2010 |
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Scientists prove hypothesis on the mystery of dengue virus infection
A leading immunology research institute has validated the long-held and controversial hypothesis that antibodies - usually the "good guys" in the body's fight against viruses - instead contribute to severe dengue virus-induced ...
Feb 11, 2010 |
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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.
Nov 17, 2010 |
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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
May 06, 2010 |
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Thailand developing dengue vaccine: researcher
Researchers in Thailand say they have developed a prototype vaccine against dengue fever and will conduct further tests with the aim of bringing it to market within a decade.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Feb 22, 2011 |
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US researchers hopeful for dengue vaccine
Promising advances have been made in the testing of possible vaccines to prevent the mosquito-borne dengue virus, which kills 25,000 people every year, researchers said Thursday.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 17, 2011 |
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Team uncovers dengue fever virus' molecular secrets
Researchers at the Instituto de Medicina Molecular in Lisbon, Portugal and the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, are making major strides toward understanding the life cycle of flaviviruses, ...
Mar 08, 2011 |
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