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Imaging study shows HIV particles assembling around its genome

(PhysOrg.com) -- The genesis of one the planet's most lethal viruses, HIV, has been caught on tape. New imaging experiments show individual HIV genomes -- strands of RNA — docking on the inner membrane of an infected cell ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Shades of 1918? New study compares avian flu with a notorious killer from the past

In the waning months of the First World War, a lethal virus known as the Spanish flu (influenza A, subtype H1N1), swept the United States, Europe and Asia in three convulsive waves. The year was 1918. The ...

Biology /

created Feb 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Drug blocks two of world's deadliest emerging viruses

Two highly lethal viruses that have emerged in recent outbreaks are susceptible to chloroquine, an established drug used to prevent and treat malaria, according to a new basic science study by researchers at Weill Cornell ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0