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Virus Detector Harnesses Ring of Light in 'Whispering Gallery Mode'
August 24, 2012 — By affixing nanoscale gold spheres onto a microscopic bead of glass, researchers have created a super-sensor that can detect even single samples of the smallest known viruses. The sensor uses a ... > full storyMore: -
Advantage Flu Virus: Scientists Discover One of the Ways the Influenza Virus Disarms Host Cells
August 23, 2012 — Scientists have discovered one of the ways the influenza virus disarms our natural defense system. The virus decreases the production of key immune regulating proteins in human cells that help fight ... > full story -
Field Guide to the Epstein-Barr Virus Charts Viral Paths Toward Cancer
August 23, 2012 — Researchers have published the first annotated atlas of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) genome, providing the best look yet at how EBV interacts with human genes and proteins. EBV, which is thought to ... > full story -
Toward Medicines That Recruit the Body's Natural Disease-Fighting Proteins
August 22, 2012 — Like recruiters pitching military service to a throng of people, scientists are developing drugs to recruit disease-fighting proteins present naturally in everyone’s blood in medicine’s ... > full story -
Microbiologists Find New Approach to Fighting Viral Illnesses
August 22, 2012 — By discovering how certain viruses use their host cells to replicate, microbiologists have identified a new approach to the development of universal treatments for viral illnesses such as meningitis, ... > full story -
Researchers Return Blood Cells to Stem Cell State
August 22, 2012 — Scientists have developed a reliable method to turn the clock back on blood cells, restoring them to a primitive stem cell state from which they can then develop into any other type of cell in the ... > full story -
Predicting Outbreaks of Dengue Fever According to Climate
August 22, 2012 — Dengue fever, transmitted by the Aedes mosquito, affects hundreds of millions of people in around one hundred tropical countries and causes 25,000 deaths per year. In the absence of a vaccine, ... > full story -
Targeting Sugars in Quest for Vaccine Against HIV The Virus That Causes AIDS
August 21, 2012 — As a step toward designing the first effective anti-HIV vaccine, scientists are reporting new insights into how a family of rare, highly potent antibodies bind to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and ... > full story -
Viruses With Integrated Gene Switch
August 21, 2012 — Scientists have developed "RNA switches" which allow them to specifically turn on and off genes in viruses. This will help to enhance regulation of gene therapy and viral therapy of ... > full story -
Patient Suffers Severe Amnesia but Musical Memory Remains Intact
August 21, 2012 — Scientists have examined a professional cellist who suffered from encephalitis caused by a herpes virus. As a result of the inflammation, the patient developed serious disturbances in memory. Both ... > full story
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