Pharmaceuticals Manufactured In Insect Larvae
.... Thanks to the confluence of a new technology in virology and a recent patent in rearing insects, scientists at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc. (BTI), located at Cornell University, have found a better way to produce commercial quantities of recombinant pharmaceutical proteins -- out of...Virologists Track New Influenza Threat
...ng Kong. Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a virology professor in the School of Veterinary Medicine, will travel to Hong Kong in early January to identify the source of the virus, a type found commonly in birds. Finding the virus in animals is ...U.S. Scientists Honored For Lifetime Contributions In Hepatitis Research
...n, Ph.D., director of the molecular virology and immunology division at Georgetown University Medical Center, Rockville, Md., who has received NIAID support for many years. The two scientists, working in close collabo...Discovering Virology From Beijerinck To Hyperlinks
... role in the development offundamental concepts in virology well into the future. For more information onProfessor Beijerinck, TMV or information on the TMV Symposium planned tocommemorate a century of virology, link to APS's homepage at http://www.scisoc.org during the month of July. The American Phytopa...Purdue Study: RNA 'Motor' Transports DNA In Virus
...hauffeurs. Peixuan Guo, professor of molecular virology at Purdue University, has foundthat a virus known as Bacteriophage Phi 29 uses six RNAs strung together in theshape of a hexagon to create a motor that transports DNA in the virus. His findings were published in the July issue of the scientific j...New Evidence Shows How Some Flu Viruses Become Lethal
... finding may have much broader implications in the virology field, and will prompt researchers to look for a protein of this kind in other viruses." Influenza viruses are never the same threat each year. Their surface proteins normally undergo slight changes, called "drift," which requires new vaccine...Ohio State Professor Receives Patent For Infectious Bursal Disease Virus Detection Kit
...eloper of the two tests and professor of molecular virology at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center . “A producer won’t get the same performance out of his flock. It’s going to cost more to feed the birds and the birds will weigh less when they go to market. It c...Günter Blobel wins 1999 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine
...#9;Choppin, who headed Rockefeller's laboratory of virology before joiningHHMI in 1985, added that "I have known Günter for more than 30 years andcould not be more delighted to see him receive this honor. He is not only one ofthe great scientists of our time, but also a wonderful colleague and mentor ofy...Complex mystery of amphibian decline calls for a new kind of science
...fferent areas as evolutionary ecology, immunology, virology and mycology, and further includes specialists in statistical and molecular genetics, amphibian pathology, population biology, population ecology, ecological genetics and veterinary epidemiology, among many others. The project is clearly not scien......ds such as genetics, epidemiology, bioinformatics, virology andneuroscience. The grants, to range from $50,000 to $90,000 annually, will beawarded competitively. The recipients must hold full-time appointments atnonprofit scientific institutions in the six countries, have madesignificant contributions to biom...Fighting breast cancer at the molecular level
...gies. Kousoulas is also a professor of veterinary virology and biotechnology at the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine....Researcher receives grant to help halt HIV replication
...S-Duane Grandgenett, Ph.D., professor of molecular virology at the Institute of Molecular Virology (IMV) at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, has received two grants totaling nearly a million dollars to study ways of inhibiting HIV replication in humans. The grants are from the National Institute of ...HHMI awards $16.25 million to biomedical researchers from Canada and Latin America
...ientists in fields such as genetics, epidemiology, virology and neuroscience. These scientists are investigating a wide variety of biomedical topics, including the molecular bases of parasitic diseases that are prevalent in much of Latin America, the genetic origins of cancer and the mechanisms that control ...SV40 found in human lymphoma samples
...net Butel, chairman of the department of molecular virology and microbiology at Baylor and senior author of the report. "This study further demonstrates that humans can be infected by SV40, an infection that was not suspected in the past," she said. SV40 usually infects rhesus monkeys. However, in the 1950s...Fox Chase Cancer Center receives grant to study possible link between measles vaccine and autism
...he central nervous system, has been working in the virology and immunobiology laboratories at Fox Chase Cancer Center since 1995 where he investigates the causes and mechanisms of central nervous system diseases. In addition to his current work with the M.I.N.D Institute, he has also worked with The F.M. Kir...University of Pittsburgh findings published in Science illustrate how KSHV causes cancer
...V," said Dr. Moore, also director of the molecular virology program at UPCI. "It further demonstrates that viruses which inhibit immune functions also can, under some circumstances, induce tumor cells to grow because these viruses are attacking pathways that are important in both immunity and suppression of t...Herpes virus trashes detection mechanism to hide from immune system
...the presentation of MHC class 1 molecules, and the virology laboratory of Herbert W. Virgin IV, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pathology and immunology and of molecular microbiology....Vanderbilt, Meharry establish new Center for AIDS Research
...and associate director, respectively. A molecular virology and genetics core, which provides sophisticated genetic and virus culture techniques. Drs. Paul W. Spearman and Yi-Wei Tang of Vanderbilt are the director and associate director. The ultimate solution to the worldwide AIDS epidemic is a vaccine that...Immerge BioTherapeutics announces identification of PERV receptor
...College, London. "We need to understand the basic virology of PERV, and indeed other porcine microorganisms, before xenotransplantation can be considered a safe procedure." There is a critical need to identify new sources of organs for the growing number of people needing life-saving transplants around the w...Purdue biologists receive nearly $18 million to study infectious diseases
...he grant is a significant investment in structural virology at Purdue." The second grant, $3.2 million also spread over four and a half years, could complement the first grant in the long run, as it is designed to support the development of antiviral compounds that might be made possible by the researchers' w...