News tagged with host interaction
New findings reveal how influenza virus hijacks human cells
Influenza is and remains a disease to reckon with. Seasonal epidemics around the world kill several hundred thousand people every year. In the light of looming pandemics if bird flu strains develop the ability ...
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Feb 04, 2009 |
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Space Image: Ring of fire
(PhysOrg.com) -- This composite image shows the central region of the spiral galaxy NGC 4151. X-rays (blue) from the Chandra X-ray Observatory are combined with optical data (yellow) showing positively charged ...
Dec 28, 2011 |
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Spitzer sees shrouded burst of stars
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have found a stunning burst of star formation that beams out as much infrared light as an entire galaxy. The collision of two spiral galaxies ...
Nov 23, 2010 |
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X-Ray observations of an extrasolar planetary system
(PhysOrg.com) -- The majority of extra-solar planets (about 278 of them) are more massive than Jupiter. About 20% of this majority group orbit their stars at a distances of less than one-tenth of an astronomical ...
Oct 22, 2010 |
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Yahoo! shuts down GeoCities
Yahoo! on Monday closed GeoCities, a free Web hosting service that it purchased for over three billion dollars at the height of the dot-com boom.
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Yahoo! abandoning GeoCities
Yahoo! said Thursday it will close its GeoCities service that provides people a free online locale for home pages.
Apr 23, 2009 |
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Scientists follow live infection by food-poisoning bacteria Listeria
Scientists in Portugal and France managed to follow the patterns of gene expression in food-poisoning bacteria Listeria monocytogenes (L. monocytogenes) live during infection for the first time. The work ab ...
May 28, 2009 |
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