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New drug treats West Nile virus in mice
Reuters -
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Continuous administration of a drug dubbed AMD3100 improves survival of mice infected with West Nile virus, scientists at ...
Ex-Boston Scientific unit gets new name, home
Boston Globe, United States -
s failed AIDS drug, Mozobil, helped fight West Nile virus in mice, suggesting it might also work in humans against the brain-infecting malady for which ...BSX
Science's awesome challenge: Creating artificial life
McClatchy Washington Bureau, DC -
``This is the goal of synthetic biology, but it is not creating new life.'' A team led by Wimmer made a splash in 2002 when it synthesized the virus that ...OTC:ALIF

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Don't give up hope for vaccine, AIDS conference hears
Globe and Mail, Canada -
... so successful in prolonging the lives of people with HIV-AIDS) and using them to block transmission of the virus. Scientists working on microbicides are ...
Global fight against AIDS gets tough Xinhua
AIDS Conference Brings Together Diverse Community Voice of America
New evidence to be presented at Aids meeting The South African Star
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Mystery Parrot Disease Virus Identified
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A large team of researchers comprised of research scientists, veterinarians and doctors identified this new virus to be a type of bornavirus, ...

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A Second Chance for Gorillas
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But a rigorous new census of western lowland gorillas conducted by scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society has found as many as 125000 of them ...
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New HIV Drug Offers Hope For
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Writing about their observations in the New England Journal of Medicine, the researchers have revealed that raltegravir lowers the amount of virus in the ...
Scientists find HIV weakest point
The Herald, Zimbabwe -
Scientists are hoping that the ground-breaking research may lead to a cure for HIV. the virus by finding this small region of HIV that is unchangeable," ...
Zim commended for spirited fight against HIV/Aids The Herald
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Meet AZ: The computer hacker behind a cybercrime wave
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AZ is an archetypical new-generation hacker. No one outside of his close associates knows his true identity, virus hunters say. But security researchers and ...
This nudging stuff is nothing new - and it's all a bit shaky
guardian.co.uk, UK -
What policymakers had hitherto failed to realise was that crime moves through society like a virus - and, like most epidemics, its spread could be traced to ...
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[BOOK] Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme
R Brodie - 1996 - books.google.com
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SARS?beginning to understand a new virus -
K Stadler, V Masignani, M Eickmann, S Becker, S … - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2003 - nature.com
... Enjuanes, L. et al. in Virus Taxonomy (eds Regenmortel, MHV et al.) 835?849
(Academic Press, New York, 2002). ... Science 300, 1399?1404 (2003). ...

EPIDEMIOLOGY: New Virus Fingered in Malaysian Epidemic -
M Enserink - Science, 1999 - sciencemag.org
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the Hendra virus, which surfaced ... But the new virus spreads much more rapidly ...

Will transgenic crops generate new viruses and new diseases? -
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The Scientific Challenge of Hepatitis C -
J Cohen - Science, 1999 - sciencemag.org
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Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome: an emerging infectious disease -
JM Hughes, CJ Peters, ML Cohen, BW Mahy - Science, 1993 - sciencemag.org
... NCID scientists then cloned, sequenced, and expressed large parts of the
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES: Calling All Coronavirologists -
M Enserink - Science, 2003 - sciencemag.org
... of government, academic, and corporate scientists have rushed in to characterize
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Toward a new economics of science
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... Roughly speaking, a modern scientist is paid in the ... of relinquishing exclusive
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New hepatitis viruses: Contenders and pretenders -
S Bowden - Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2001 - Blackwell Synergy
... Very recently, scientists working at the DiaSorin Biomolecular Research Institute
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES: Hungry for Details, Scientists Zoom In on SARS Genomes -
M Enserink, G Vogel - Science, 2003 - sciencemag.org
... of the genome, that the new virus is distantly related to all known coronaviruses
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Scientists Discover New Virus Responsible For Deaths of Transplant Recipients in Victoria, Australia

Knowledge of genetic sequence of virus will enable improvements in screening to enhance transplantation safety

Scientists in the Jerome L. and Dawn Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory of the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and colleagues in the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory in Melbourne, Australia and 454 Life Sciences have discovered a new virus that was responsible for the deaths of three transplant recipients who received organs from a single donor in Victoria, Australia.

The previously unknown virus, which is related to lymphocytic choreomeningitis virus (LCMV), was found using rapid sequencing technology established by 454 Life Sciences and bioinformatics algorithms developed in the Greene Laboratory with support from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Known strains of LCMV have been implicated in a small number of cases of disease transmission by organ transplantation, however, the newly discovered virus is sufficiently different that it could not be detected using existing screening methods.

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Over 30,000 organ transplants are performed in the U.S. each year. Knowledge of the genetic sequence of this virus will enable improvements in screening that will enhance the safety of transplantation.

Ian Lipkin, director of the Greene laboratory and principal investigator of the Northeast Biodefense Center, emphasized the importance of academic, public health and industrial partnership in this work. “This was a team effort. Drs. Mike Catton and Julian Druce at the Victorian Infectious Disease Reference Laboratory reached out to us after a comprehensive state-of-the-art investigation failed to turn up leads,” stated Lipkin. “We succeeded in identifying the virus responsible for the deaths by building on their work and integrating the efforts of Gustavo Palacios, Sean Conlan, Thomas Briese and P-Lan Quan at Columbia and utilizing new tools for pathogen surveillance and discovery developed in the Greene Laboratory and 454 Life Sciences.”
 
 
 
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