News tagged with infectious virus particles
Neutron scattering study yields new insights into virus life cycle
(PhysOrg.com) -- Without a host, a virus is a dormant package of proteins, genetic material and occasional lipids. Once inside a living cell, however, a virus can latch onto cell parts and spring into action ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 24, 2011 |
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Retrovirus replication process different than thought
How a retrovirus, like HIV, reproduces and assembles new viruses is different than previously thought, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. Understanding the steps a virus takes for assembly could allow ...
Jul 15, 2010 |
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New insight into selective binding properties of infectious HIV
Free infectious HIV-1 is widely thought to be the major form of the virus in the blood of infected persons. U.S. Military HIV Research Program (MHRP) researchers, however, have demonstrated that essentially all of the infectious ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Dec 15, 2009 |
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New insights into ancient life: Chromosome segregation in Archaea
(PhysOrg.com) -- The effort to classify life into various groups has been a bumpy ride. Prior to the 1900s, living things were usually pegged as either plants or animals – period. By the middle of the ...
Mar 16, 2012 |
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Vaccines to boost immunity where it counts, not just near shot site
Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have created synthetic nanoparticles that target lymph nodes and greatly boost vaccine responses, said lead author Ashley St. John, Ph.D., a researcher at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 22, 2012 |
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New technique tracks viral infections, aids development of antiviral drugs
Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory Center for Bio-Molecular Science and Engineering have developed a method to detect the presence of viruses in cells and to study their growth. Targeting a virus ...
Apr 11, 2011 |
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Transmissible treatment proposed for HIV could target superspreaders to curb epidemic
Biochemist Leor Weinberger and colleagues at the University of California, San Diego and UCLA have proposed a fundamentally new intervention for the HIV/AIDS epidemic based on engineered, virus-like particles that could subdue ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Mar 17, 2011 |
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New lupus drug results from Scripps Research technology
Scientific advances at The Scripps Research Institute were key to laying the foundation for the new drug Benlysta (belimumab), approved today by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Benlysta, which treats the most comm ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Mar 10, 2011 |
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Virus-mimicking nanoparticles can stimulate long lasting immunity
Emory postdoctoral fellow Sudhir Pai Kasturi, PhD, created tiny particles studded with molecules thatturn on Toll‑like receptors. He worked with colleague Niren Murthy, PhD, associate professor in the ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 23, 2011 |
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Nano-sized vaccines
MIT engineers have designed a new type of nanoparticle that could safely and effectively deliver vaccines for diseases such as HIV and malaria.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 22, 2011 |
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Giant virus, tiny protein crystals show X-ray laser's power and potential
Two studies published in the February 3 issue of Nature demonstrate how the unique capabilities of the world's first hard X-ray free-electron laser -- the Linac Coherent Light Source, located at the Depart ...
Feb 02, 2011 |
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Scientists reveal complete structure of HIV's outer shell
A team of scientists at The Scripps Research Institute and the University of Virginia has determined the structure of the protein package that delivers the genetic material of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to human ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jan 19, 2011 |
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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 ...
Jan 11, 2011 |
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