A new liquid metal combination is shaping up as a potential secret weapon in the global fight against antimicrobial resistance, which is already rendering some antibiotic medications powerless against 'superbugs'.
Bio & Medicine
Aug 4, 2023
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Many of the world's most common or deadly human pathogens are RNA-based viruses—Ebola, Zika and flu, for example—and most have no FDA-approved treatments. A team led by researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 10, 2019
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Copper-iodide nanoparticles have long-lasting antiviral activity against the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus, according to a paper in the February issue of the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
Bio & Medicine
Feb 15, 2012
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Recurrent infection is a common feature of persistent viral diseases. It includes episodes of high viral production interspersed by periods of relative quiescence. These quiescent or silent stages are hard to study with experimental ...
Mathematics
May 31, 2013
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Researchers test a pre-emptive anti-viral treatment on a common virus known to cause respiratory infections.
Plasma Physics
Dec 16, 2011
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James Cook University scientists have developed a new tool that can be used to more rapidly discover and develop new generations of anti-influenza drugs.
Biochemistry
Sep 5, 2013
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The human immune system is a complex network of organs, cells and proteins that defend the body against infections and diseases. While our bodies work constantly to ensure invading infections don't breach the defenses, viruses ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 24, 2022
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Scientists at the Babraham Institute have shown that two RNA binding proteins hold the key to a stronger immune response to influenza in mice. Their findings, published today in Nature Communications, reveal that the absence ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 27, 2022
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(Phys.org)—A dramatic image of a virus replicating and spreading through cells, destroying them as it goes, has been captured by University of Sydney researchers.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 1, 2012
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Medical Systems Virology group at the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM) at the University of Helsinki, together with its national and international collaborators, developed a new cell screening method that can ...
Biochemistry
Sep 5, 2012
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