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Scientists Discover Influenza's Achilles Heel: Antioxidants
As the nation copes with a
shortage of vaccines for
H1N1 influenza, a team of
Alabama researchers have
raised hopes that they have
found an Achilles' heel for
... > full story
Effort Launched To Find And Control Diseases That Move Between Wildlife And People
In hopes of preventing the
next global pandemic and a
possible death toll into the
millions, researchers have
launched an unprecedented
... > full story
Archaeopteryx Was Not Very Bird-like: Inside The First Bird, Surprising Signs Of A Dinosaur
The raptor-like
Archaeopteryx has long been
viewed as the archetypal
first bird, but new research
reveals that it was actually
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Feathery Four-winged Dinosaur Fossil Found In China Bridges Transition To Birds
A fossil of a bird-like
dinosaur with four wings has
been discovered in
northeastern China. The
specimen bridges a critical
... > full story
- Scientists Discover Influenza's Achilles Heel: Antioxidants
- Effort Launched To Find And Control Diseases That Move Between Wildlife And People
- Archaeopteryx Was Not Very Bird-like: Inside The First Bird, Surprising Signs Of A Dinosaur
- Feathery Four-winged Dinosaur Fossil Found In China Bridges Transition To Birds
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Scientists Propose New Explanation For Flu Virus Antigenic Drift
October 30, 2009 — Influenza viruses evade infection-fighting antibodies by constantly changing the shape of their major surface protein. Now, researchers have proposed a new explanation for the evolutionary forces ... > full story -
Triple-combo Drug Shows Promise Against Antiviral-resistant H1N1
October 29, 2009 — An experimental drug cocktail that includes three prescriptions now widely available offers the best hope in developing a single agent to treat drug-resistant H1N1 swine flu, says a virology ... > full story -
New Strategies To Combat The Flu Virus
October 27, 2009 — New anti-flu drugs could become a reality as a result of a new ... > full story -
Cyber Exploring The 'Ecosystems' Of Influenzas
October 23, 2009 — Predicting the infection patterns of influenzas requires tracking both the ecology and the evolution of the fast-morphing viruses that cause them, said a researcher who enlists computers to model ... > full story -
Flu Surveillance Boosts Control, Treatment Options
October 19, 2009 — Tracking and understanding the patterns of H1N1's spread is crucial to keeping a big-picture look at the disease. Says one expert, "Back in 1918 and 1919 when we had the great flu epidemic, it took ... > full story -
Protecting Humans And Animals From Diseases In Wildlife
October 9, 2009 — Avian influenza (H5N1), rabies, plague, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), and more recently swine flu (H1N1) are all examples of diseases that have made the leap from animals to humans. As the ... > full story -
HIV’s Ancestors May Have Plagued First Mammals
September 28, 2009 — The retroviruses which gave rise to HIV have been battling it out with mammal immune systems since mammals first evolved around 100 million years ago -- about 85 million years earlier than previously ... > full story -
Study Details Pathways To Flu Virus Exposure, Validates Preventative Measures
September 21, 2009 — With estimates that half the population of the United States could be infected with the 2009 H1N1 flu virus this fall and winter, a new study examines four flu exposure pathways and quantifies the ... > full story -
'Dung Of The Devil' Plant Roots Point To New Swine Flu Drugs
September 10, 2009 — Scientists have discovered that roots of a plant used a century ago during the great Spanish influenza pandemic contains substances with powerful effects in laboratory experiments in killing the H1N1 ... > full story -
H1N1 Pandemic Virus Does Not Mutate Into 'Superbug' In Lab Study
September 1, 2009 — In the first study to examine how the H1N1 pandemic virus interacts with other flu strains, laboratory research found no evidence of "reassortment" to form a more virulent "superbug," but did ... > full story
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