News tagged with secondary viral infection

Scientists tackle viral mysteries

Scientists know that some cancers are triggered by viruses, which take over cellular systems and cause uncontrolled cell growth. Doctors - and patients who get shingles late in life - have also known for many years that ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Researchers reveal SBP8a configurations

A new study has shown previously unseen details of an anthrax bacteriophage — a virus that infects anthrax bacteria — revealing for the first time how it infects its host, and providing an initial blueprint for ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study suggests new treatment option for ovarian cancer

(PhysOrg.com) -- A paper published in the January issue of the journal Nanomedicine could provide the foundation for a new ovarian cancer treatment option -- one that would use an outside-the-body filtration device ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 27, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A drug against AIDS could be effective against the herpes virus

Scientists at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona, Spain) have published a new study that demonstrates that raltegravir, the drug approved in 2007 for the treatment of AIDS that is sold ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 23, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

NIH study models H1N1 flu spread

As the United States prepares for the upcoming flu season, a group of researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health continues to model how H1N1 may spread.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Sep 21, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Missing Puma reveals cancer conundrum

Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers in Melbourne, Australia, have made a discovery that has upended scientists' understanding of programmed cell death and its role in tumour formation.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Introduction of highly active antiretroviral treatment for HIV patients has halved new HIV diagnoses since 1996

A Canadian study being presented at the forthcoming International AIDS Society (IAS) conference shows that the annual number of new HIV diagnoses has more than halved since the introduction of highly active antiretroviral ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jul 18, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A nutritional supplement for treating chronic hepatitis C: Viusid

A research team from Cuba investigated the efficacy of Viusid, a nutritional supplement, as an antioxidant and an immunomodulator in patients with chronic hepatitis C. Their results showed that treatment with Viusid leads ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jun 17, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Biologists provide molecular explanation for the evolution of Tamiflu resistance

Biologists at the California Institute of Technology have pinpointed molecular changes that helped allow the global spread of resistance to the antiviral medication Tamiflu (oseltamivir) among strains of the seasonal H1N1 ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Increased HAART coverage associated with 50 percent drop

A comprehensive population-based study, conducted by the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) and presented at the 17th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in San Francisco, shows that expanded ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Feb 18, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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