16 APS exercise research highlights, from reduced flu mortality to proteomics & obesity
... Protective effect of exercise on mortality due to influenza in mice. Moderate exercise for four consecutive da...infection significantly increased survivability to influenza infection. 28.1 Ronald N. Cortright, et al. (East Carolina University, Greenville, SC) African-Am...Scientists find nanowires capable of detecting individual viruses
...key domains of viruses - such as agglutinin in the influenza A virus. When an individual virus came into contac...d optical measurements using fluorescently labeled influenza A confirmed that these conductance changes corresponded to binding and unbinding of single viruses f...K-State's National Agricultural Biosecurity Center receives $1.3 Million from Department of Defense
...ure. "Those include foot and mouth disease, avian influenza and exotic Newcastle disease," she said. Federal, state, non-profit and private industry groups will be contacted, in search of response lessons. An initial list of agencies the National Agricultural Biosecurity Center will contact includes several U...'Defensive' action by influenza viruses demonstrated by Hebrew university researcher
...s to develop new and more effective means to block influenza and other viruses in the future. Influenza, Prof. ...s new information on the mutating abilities of the influenza virus will have to be taken into consideration in further anti-viral research, said Arkin....Study of flu patients reveals virus outsmarting key drug
...ic Achilles' heel that results in a drug-resistant influenza virus capable of infecting new human hosts, accord...al The Lancet. The study of Japanese children with influenza and treated with the antiviral drug oseltamivir was conducted by an international team of researcher...Physics gravity model applicable to disease spread
...e of these diseases as well. To a smaller extent, influenza is also included in this category, although because influenza mutates so rapidly, each year brings a slightly different virus to infect even those who have contra...FDA approves VYTORIN, first and only to powerfully reduce LDL cholesterol through dual inhibition
...ct infection (3.9 percent), myalgia (3.5 percent), influenza (2.6 percent), and extremity pain (2.3 percent). Pricing and availability for VYTORIN The price of VYTORIN will be $2.34 at all doses. This means that the significant LDL cholesterol reductions of VYTORIN are available to patients, physicians an...Mapping the evolution of a virus
...r modeling method for mapping the evolution of the influenza virus. The method could soon help medical researc...lop a better understanding of certain mutations in influenza and other viruses that allow diseases to dodge the human immune system. In a paper published in toda...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...sponses to the flu virus vaccine. "During influenza epidemics, the rate of hospitalization in the elde...nt immune function seen in the aged in response to influenza virus vaccination," say the researchers. "Therefore, use of an LT-IS patch could be a new, safe, an...Asian bird flu became highly pathogenic through continued circulation and gene swapping
(MEMPHIS, TENN.--July 8, 2004) An avian influenza virus that has caused three major outbreaks among ... free of H5N1 outbreaks in poultry during the 2004 influenza crisis, according to Robert Webster, Ph.D., member of Infectious Diseases department and holder of t...Thimerosal, found in childhood vaccines, can increase the risk of autism-like damage in mice
...st few years, although it is still present in some influenza vaccines. Identifying the connection between genetic susceptibility and an environmental trigger for autism--in this case thimerosal exposure--is important because it may promote discovery of effective interventions for and limit exposure in a specif...Study suggests double punch could more efficiently kill viruses
...ia virus - the virus in the smallpox vaccine - and influenza A virus, in a mouse model to further investigate how the cross-priming pathway works. The team found that it is not peptides that are shared with recipient cells, but rather full-length, intact proteins. And, whereas, the previous theory suggested th...Emory scientists receive NIH MIDAS grant for computer modeling of infectious diseases
...ill adapt their model for smallpox, SARS, pandemic influenza and other possible bioterrorism agents or naturally occurring diseases. They also will investigate the interaction of microorganisms with the immune system and how it relates to disease spread through the population. Other grants were awarded to a r...Computer modeling targets epidemics, bioterror
...ill adapt their model for smallpox, SARS, pandemic influenza and other possible bioterrorism agents or naturally occurring diseases. They will also investigate how certain microorganisms cause disease within individual people and then spread through a population. (Ira Longini, Ph.D., principal investigator) ...Dietary supplement shows promise for improving immune function in the elderly
... in cellular immunity have an impaired response to influenza vaccine, making them more susceptible to getting the "flu" even though they have had their flu shot. Restoration of immune function is keenly needed for the improvement of quality of life in the elderly as this segment of the population is rapidly gr...Pioneering flu researcher wins major Imperial scientific award
One of the UK's leading experts on the influenza virus is this year's winner of the Ernst Chain Pri...uman disease. Working for the past 30 years on the influenza virus, Sir John led the team that first deciphered the molecular detail of how the flu virus latches...Researchers determine reason for deadly spread of 1918 influenza
The explosive spread of the influenza virus during the 1918 pandemic that killed some 20... the viral protein reveals that the 1918 strain of influenza underwent subtle alterations that enabled it to bind with deadly efficiency to human cells, while re...Scientists at Scripps Research Institute describe structure of receptor on surface of 1918 flu virus
...n World War I and became the largest and deadliest influenza outbreak in recorded history. Their work reveals s...known. Viruses were not identified as the cause of influenza until the 1930s, and lung tissue samples taken in 1918 are generally unreliable sources because the ...International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases
...ury. A particularly virulent and deadly strain of influenza led to unexpected demand and shortages in influenza vaccine in the United States. Antibiotics continue to be less effective against many bacterial infe...U. of Colorado team developing 'Flu Chip' for fast, accurate diagnosis
... officials to differentiate between three types of influenza and other viruses that cause similar clinical symp...oratories in Hercules, Calif. According to Rowlen, influenza A viral infections have had a dramatic impact on humans, with an estimated 500,000 deaths worldwide ...