Understanding the evolution of life-threatening viruses like influenza, Ebola and dengue fever, could help us to minimize their impact. New research points the way to a fossil record of viruses that have insinuated themselves ...
Biotechnology
Nov 18, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Biologists from The University of Texas at Arlington have uncovered virus fragments from the same family as the modern Hepatitis B virus locked inside the genomes of songbirds such as the modern-day zebra ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 28, 2010
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We tend to just think of viruses in terms of their damaging impacts on human health and lives. The 1918 flu pandemic killed around 50 million people. Smallpox claimed 30% of those who caught it, and survivors were often scarred ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 10, 2024
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Many astonishingly creative people have lived lives cut tragically short by illness. Johannes Vermeer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jane Austen, Franz Schubert and Emily Brontë are some famous examples.
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 26, 2023
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A new study compares and assesses eight de novo genome assembly software tools on actual viral next-generation sequencing data. The study, which includes the whole genome sequence data of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes ...
Biotechnology
Jul 20, 2022
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Pandemics past and present have been caused when pathogens – germs that cause disease—move between animals and humans, as SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) did when it made its way from bats to people. But not ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 18, 2021
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Hepatitis B virus (HBV), a small enveloped DNA virus belonging to the Hepadnaviride family, remains a serious global health problem. Uncontrolled chronic HBV infection can lead to life-threatening end-stage chronic liver ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 4, 2021
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A team led by Professor Patrick Labonté at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) in Montreal, Canada, has identified the role of a key process in the replication cycle of the hepatitis D virus, an infection ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 20, 2019
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Morris Animal Foundation-funded researchers from the University of Sydney have found a previously undiscovered hepadnavirus in an immunocompromised cat, and subsequently in banked feline blood samples. The research team published ...
Plants & Animals
May 18, 2018
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An Indiana University biochemist's discovery of a class of anti-viral small molecules that target the function of a virus DNA hidden in the infected livers of hepatitis B patients may lead to a cure for this viral infection ...
Biochemistry
Jul 16, 2014
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