BATS stressed by recent floods may cough, poo and vomit more often, leading to an outbreak of the deadly hendra virus, vets warn.
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A revolutionary gene therapy treatment for heart failure is about to undergo its first international trial in the UK.
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I love the way they manage to write an entire article without mentioning which virus it is, once...a free norovirus to the first reader who responds with the correct article! Delete the scoop?
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Nova Scotia's multi-million dollar strawberry industry is under attack from a mutant pest.
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"the result of two known viruses combining into a new, mutated form...": I love it. Mutated zombie strawberry viruses. Not many people think of mutant strawberry viruses...B-) Delete the scoop?
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Viruses have historically been classified into one of two types – those with an outer lipid-containing envelope and those without an envelope. Via Ken Yaw Agyeman-Badu
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...and hep A steals membranes from liver cells to circulate as an enveloped particle(s) in blood. This is a fascinating find, and doubtless will be followed by similar for other viruses.
The commentary has some speculation as to how vaccines work, if antibodies can't see the virus - but they forget the virus has to get INTO the host in the first place, and environmental forms are non-enveloped, AND that the vaccine may well elicit some degree of cell-mediated immunity, which would target infected cells displaying degraded protein on their surfaces via MHC I-type receptors. Delete the scoop?
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The worldwide emergence of ‘superbugs’ and a dry antibiotic pipeline threaten modern society with a return to the preantibiotic era. Phages – the viruses of bacteria – could help fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Phage therapy was first attempted in 1919 by Felix d’Herelle and was commercially developed in the 1930s before being replaced by antibiotics in most of the western world.
I have long had a fascination for the use of phages to treat disease - and now it looks like it's the new-new wave of the future, as antibiotics begin to fail. Image courtesy of Russell Kightley Media Via Chris Upton + helpers Delete the scoop?
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In a world first, a Singapore scientist and his team have developed a chip which can detect up to 70,000 different viruses and bacteria in one test.
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Virus on a chip: one better than gannet on a stick.... Delete the scoop?
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On Twitter, anti-vaccination statements appear to be socially contagious while pro-vaccination statements are not, according to a team of researchers who tracked 318,379 pro- and anti-vaccine messages on the social networking website. Starting in 2009, the team from Penn State University tracked the vaccine-related messages that Twitter users were exposed to, and then observed how those users expressed their own opinions about a new H1N1 influenza vaccine. Positive sentiments would be, for example, an expressed desire to get the H1N1 vaccine, while a negative statement would be a belief that the vaccine caused harm.
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Viral sentiments spreading via Twitter...Twiruses?? Delete the scoop?
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Could the next big animal-human disease wipe us out?
I do so love a good scare story. Especially about viruses. Via Chris Upton + helpers Delete the scoop?
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Great: so now they have to worry about distressed bats, as well as flodding??