Ancient viruses lurking in polar ice
...thatother viruses, such as ancient strains of flu, polio and smallpox, may also beentombed and could make a comeback. "We don't know the survival rate, or howoften they get back into the environment. But it certainly is possible," saysTom Starmer of Syracuse University in New York. Starmer's collea......or contributions to public health by isolating the polio virus, promoting theearly use of cancer chemotherapy, adding to the arsenal of AIDS medications,developing a promising Lyme disease vaccine, discovering genes that contributeto skin cancer and high blood pressure, and making breakthroughs in thetreat...Scientists Discover How Bacteria Protect Themselves Against Immune System
...ent of pediatric medicine, including theSabin oral polio vaccine and Survanta, a drug used to treat respiratory distresssyndrome that is estimated to save the lives of at least 2,000 infants each yearin the United States. Cincinnati Children's vision is "to be the leader inimproving child health."......tiny version of the "iron lung" used to treathuman polio patients, was built for mutant mice suffering from respiratorydistress. These animals, bred to have specific genetic characteristics, areimportant to the study of genetics and human disease. For example, they can bemodels for different ailments, allo......ffect humans -- hepatitis, influenza, herpes, HIV, polio and a host of others -- have evolved mechanisms to resist the effects of interferon, one of the body's first lines of defense against viruses," said Dr. Michael Gale, Jr., UW microbiology fellow who is lead scientist and first author of the study. Th...