Landmark gene agreement announced by Samoan government and UC Berkeley for anti-AIDS drug Prostratin
...e world because of its potential to force the AIDS virus out of hibernation in the body's immune cells and into the line of fire of anti-AIDS drugs now in use. "Prostratin is Samoa's gift to the world," explained Samoan Minister of Trade Joseph Keil. "We are pleased to accept the University of California a...Landmark agreement between Samoa and UC Berkeley could help search for AIDS cure
...e world because of its potential to force the AIDS virus out of hibernation in the body's immune cells and into the line of fire of anti-AIDS drugs now in use. "Prostratin is Samoa's gift to the world," explained Samoan Minister of Trade Joseph Keil. "We are pleased to accept the University of California a...Pacific Northwest team unveils largest virus proteome to date
...sed to find that when a cell is infected, the HCMV virus incorporates into itself a huge number of that ho...the virus, Varnum said, might also suggest how the virus avoids detection by the immune system--that it's using the body's own cellular proteins as camoufla...UCI scientists successfully target key HIV protein; breakthrough may lead to new drug therapies
...commonly known as HIV, is known to cause AIDS. The virus attacks the body's immune system, making the body ...r, headache, fatigue and enlarged lymph nodes. The virus is spread most commonly by having unprotected sex with an infected person. Funded by the Arnold and ...No role for simian virus 40 in human pleural mesotheliomas
...to asbestos. It has also been proposed that simian virus 40 (SV40), a contaminant in some polio vaccines administered in the 1950's and 1960's, might be a cause. However, studies reporting the detection of SV40 DNA in human tumors (including mesotheliomas, and also some lymphomas, brain cancers, and bone c...Keep genome data freely accessible
...scientists around the world to begin studying this virus and its pathogenicity, led to the development of vaccine candidates and diagnostic tests, and helped guide the antiviral drug research. "Unfettered, free access to the results of life-science research . . . has served science and society well", the p...Cannabis may help combat cancer-causing herpes viruses
...ut and begin replicating. This reactivation of the virus boosts the number of cells infected thereby increa...HC. While cells infected with a mouse gamma herpes virus normally died when the virus was reactivated, these same cells survived when cultured in the laborat...'Smart antibiotics' may result from UCLA research
...sette' that functions to diversify the part of the virus that binds to the bacterial cell. That cassette al... initially discovered the mechanism in a bacterial virus that infects Bordetella bronchiseptica, the "evolutionary parent" of the bacterium that causes whoop...Scientists find nanowires capable of detecting individual viruses
...tinin in the influenza A virus. When an individual virus came into contact with a receptor, it sparked a mo...cific receptors used to snag them and because each virus binds to its receptor for a characteristic length of time before dislodging -- leaving only a minusc...Bullish chemical could repel yellow fever mosquitoes
...squito that carries and transmits the yellow fever virus in some parts of the world. Evans and his group used a rhodium catalyst to aid the tricky synthesis of gaur acid, also known as bovinic acid. In doing so, the chemists also determined the exact chemical structure of the compound. Their approach is de...Scientists discover potential new way to control drug-resistant bacteria
...ains a series of genes that change the part of the virus that binds to the bacterial cell. These genes allow the phage to rapidly evolve new variants that can recognize and attack bacteria that may have become resistant to the previous phage. "Phage therapy has been practiced for nearly a hundred years ...Secretary of Energy announces seven E.O. Lawrence Award Winners
...delineating the genetic characteristics of the HIV virus and for her development of the Los Alamos HIV database, a foundation for HIV research for the scientific community. Korber is a technical staff member in the theoretical biology and biophysics group at LANL. Max, an astrophysicist,...Study explores gene transfer to modify underlying course of Alzheimer's disease
...e side effects, such as weight loss and pain. The virus coating (AAV vector) that carries the NGF gene is ... Arvanitakis said. "The vector is no longer a true virus as it cannot replicate on its own and must be in the presence of another virus to be active. The vec...Chemical genetics identifies SARS inhibitors
... agent of an atypical pneumonia. Within a year the virus infected more than 8000 people in 29 countries and...900 human lives. Lack of knowledge about the novel virus and the absence of therapeutics were the primary reasons that the outbreak could not be contained an...Protein is key to fatal disorder and normal cell function
...3 plays an important role in infection by the AIDS virus and prion proteins, and in developing Alzheimer's ...Boustany said. GalCer also interacts with the AIDS virus and beta amyloid, the protein responsible for Alzheimer's disease, and prionic proteins that cause h...Simian virus 40 not associated with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, study shows
...ople to have been exposed to or infected by simian virus 40 (SV40), a macaque polyomavirus that contaminate...umor tissue of 15% to 43% of NHL patients, and the virus causes leukemia and lymphoma in laboratory rodents. However, other research groups did not detect SV...First glimpse of DNA binding to viral enzyme
...enzyme -- a step they believe is essential for the virus to cause infection. The images, which appear on th...this interaction, we should be able to prevent the virus from replicating, and thereby thwart infection." Adenoviruses cause respiratory, gastrointestinal, ...Viral suspect for amphibian decline traced to human spread through bait
...his comes from the genetic analysis of an emerging virus that has been implicated as a cause of infectious ... western U.S. The genetic study indicates that the virus may have been transmitted to remote locations through the vector of live bait infected salamanders ...Common cold virus can cause polio in mice when injected into muscles
...ed that, under the right conditions, a common cold virus closely related to poliovirus can cause polio in mice. The researchers injected a cold virus called Coxsackievirus A21 into mice that were engineered to be susceptible to this particular virus....'Defensive' action by influenza viruses demonstrated by Hebrew university researcher
...flu symptoms, symmetrel is intended to destroy the virus by binding to and blocking a proton-conducting channel which the virus needs in order to continue functioning and multiplying. Rather than conceding defeat, however, the ...