Category: Virus
Human-to-human transmission.
World Health Organization confirms that a person in Indonesia has transmitted bird flu to another person.
Post date: Monday, June 26th, 2006.
PA-457.
Drug entering clinical trials that blocks the spread of HIV.
Post date: Thursday, June 8th, 2006.
Pan troglodytes troglodytes.
Scientists discover a chimpanzee species in Africa as the origin of the HIV virus.
Post date: Thursday, May 25th, 2006.
PlyPH.
Protein discovered that kills the anthrax virus by causing its cell walls to explode.
Post date: Monday, April 24th, 2006.
Nanowires.
Researchers build tiny batteries using viruses as power. (via)
Post date: Thursday, April 6th, 2006.
Organometallic compounds.
Scientists engineer nanoparticles on top of a plant virus. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, March 21st, 2006.
Bad eggs.
RFID chips implanted for idenfication in animals and inventory are susceptible to computer viruses. (via)
Post date: Monday, March 20th, 2006.
Transgenic mosquito.
Researchers have engineered mosquitoes to be resistant to infection by dengue fever virus.
Post date: Thursday, March 9th, 2006.
Chikungunya.
Incurable disease on a French-controlled island off the coast of Africa has infected 1/5 of the population and is responsible for 77 deaths this week. (via)
Post date: Saturday, February 25th, 2006.
Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
World Health Organization says that polio virus has been eradicated from Egypt and Niger. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, February 21st, 2006.
Mimivirus.
Newly discovered virus that may reclassify viruses as the the impetus for life forming on Earth. (via)
Post date: Monday, February 20th, 2006.
Electronic olfactory system.
Scientists are developing a smelling device that would detect diseases from human breath.
Post date: Monday, February 20th, 2006.
Directed evolution.
Scientists have manipulated a benign virus to bypass the immune system and act as a delivery agent for gene therapy.
Post date: Wednesday, February 8th, 2006.
H5N1 Vaccine.
Researchers say they have created a bird flu vaccine that is 100% effective in tests so far. (via)
Post date: Friday, January 27th, 2006.
Electron tomography.
Scientists discover how the influenza virus organizes and replicates.
Post date: Thursday, January 26th, 2006.
Cryo-EM.
X-ray method has produced the first coffin-like images of the HIV virus.
Post date: Tuesday, January 24th, 2006.
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