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July 21, 2023

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Gene Mutation May Explain Why Some Don't Get Sick from COVID-19

People who contract COVID-19 but never develop symptoms -- the so-called super dodgers -- may have a genetic ace up their sleeve. They're more than twice as likely as those who become symptomatic to carry a specific gene variation that helps them obliterate the virus, according to a new ...

How Skin Cancer Virus Outcompetes Host Cell Replication

Researchers have shown for the first time how Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCV), which causes an aggressive skin cancer called Merkel cell carcinoma, initiates DNA replication in host ...

Researchers Craft 'Origami DNA' to Control Virus Assembly

Researchers are using DNA 'origami' templates to control the way viruses are assembled. The global team behind the research developed a way to direct the assembly of virus capsids -- the protein shell of viruses -- at physiological conditions in a precise and programmable manner. Precise control ...

Fintetuning for Antibodies

Antibodies are crucial, not only for treating tumors and infections. Sometimes, however, the immune reaction they trigger can be too strong and end up causing more damage, for example in the case of people infected with Covid-19. Problems such as these can often be avoided by finetuning antibodies, ...
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Researcher Uses Pressure to Understand RNA Dynamics

Just as space holds infinite mysteries, when we zoom in at the level of biomolecules (one trillion times smaller than a meter), there is still so much to learn. Scientists are studying the ...

Studying Herpes Encephalitis With Mini-Brains

The herpes simplex virus-1 can sometimes cause a dangerous brain infection. Combining an anti-inflammatory and an antiviral could help in these cases, report ...

RSV Is a Serious Heath Threat, but the Public Knows Little About It

一项新的调查发现,美国民众病了-informed about RSV, unfamiliar with its most common symptoms, and more hesitant to recommend a vaccine against it to pregnant people than to older ...

Scientists Discover Critical Factors That Determine the Survival of Airborne Viruses

Critical insights into why airborne viruses lose their infectivity have been uncovered. The findings reveal how cleaner air kills the virus significantly quicker and why opening a window may be more ...

Scientists Discover New Embryonic Cell Type That Self-Destructs to Protect the Developing Embryo

Scientists have uncovered a new quality control system that removes damaged cells from early developing ...

Building a New Vaccine Arsenal to Eradicate Polio

Despite some of the most successful international vaccination campaigns in history, the poliovirus continues to circulate around the world, posing a threat of neurological damage and even paralysis ...

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Breakthrough in Glioblastoma Treatment With the Help of a Virus

研究人员描述的结果recent clinical trial -- a breakthrough in glioblastoma treatment with the help of a modified cold virus injected directly into the tumor. When combined ...

Moving Towards a More Inclusive Approach to Medicine

The first human genome, which has served as the reference until now, was released approximately 20 years ago. It was a landmark accomplishment that had a huge impact on biomedical research and ...

Lab-Grown Mini Lungs Could Accelerate the Study of Respiratory Diseases

Researchers have collaborated to refine a cell culture technology platform that grows genetically identical lung buds from human embryonic stem ...

Gene Engineered Cell Therapy Developed to Target Brain Metastatic Melanomas

Overall survival for patients with melanoma that has spread to the brain is only four to six months. Immunotherapies, which harness the power of the immune system to attack cancer cells, have ...

Why Do Some People Live to Be 100? Intestinal Bacteria May Hold the Answer

Some people live longer than others -- possibly due to a unique combination of bacteria in their intestines, new research ...

How the Flu Virus Hacks Our Cells

Influenza epidemics, caused by influenza A or B viruses, result in acute respiratory infection. They kill half a million people worldwide every year. These viruses can also wreak havoc on animals, as ...

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Genetic Change Increased Bird Flu Severity During U.S. Spread

Scientists found the virus strains that arrived in 2021 soon acquired genes from viruses in wild birds in North America. The resulting reassortant viruses have spread across the continent and caused ...

Researchers Use 'Natural' System to Identify Proteins Most Useful for Developing an Effective HIV Vaccine

Scientists have spent years trying to develop an effective HIV vaccine, but none have proven successful. Based on findings from a recently published study, a research team may have put science one ...

Research Offers Clues for Potential Widespread HIV Cure in People

New animal research is helping explain why at least five people have become HIV-free after receiving a stem cell transplant, and may bring scientists closer to developing what they hope will be a ...

Deadly Virus Structures Point Toward New Avenues for Vaccine Design

By comparing the structures of protein complexes from different lineages of the dangerous Lassa virus, a team identified new antibodies and vaccine ...

Study Shows Key Role for Human T Cells in the Control of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Infection

A new study has shown that human T cells have an important role to play in controlling ...

Previous Smallpox Vaccine Provides Immunity to Mpox

Vaccines against smallpox given until the mid-1970s offer continuing cross-reactive immunity to mpox (previously known as monkeypox), researchers ...

A Multiomics Approach Provides Insights Into Flu Severity

Researchers were able to identify changes in the accessibility (that is, the 'readability') of transposable elements. To do this, the researchers used an approach combining various sets of ...

Monkeypox Viruses Relatively Stable on Surfaces

Smallpox viruses are notorious for their ability to remain infectious in the environment for a very long time. A study has now shown that temperature is a major factor in this process: at room ...

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