Malaysia has been declared free from avian influenza, three months after the deadly virus was detected in poultry from a village in the central Selangor state, a minister announced Monday.In June, the H5N1 strain of bird flu was discovered after a poultry rearer from the Paya Jaras Hilir village in Selangor, next to the capital [...]
Entomologists claim to have identified a virus possibly responsible for declining honeybee population worldwide.Scientists used a sequencing technology developed by 454 Life Sciences, a Roche company to identify the virus believed to be responsible for the deaths of 2.4 million honey colonies.
Dr. Ian Lipkin, Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, [...]
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have discovered a number of viruses and viral subtypes in patients with respiratory tract infections (RTI). The Virochip technique used in the study may help find new viruses associated with human diseases.
The technique is a DNA micro-array or genome chip developed by the researchers that uses the [...]
An antiretroviral drug used in the treatment of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is also capable of slowing down the growth of cancer cells, say scientists.The discovery that the HIV drug nelfinavir has the potential to slow cancer growth gives hope that drugs designed to battle one killer disease may also help fight another.
Phillip Dennis [...]
Penn State researchers identified a key amino acid in the polymerase of poliovirus that controls the speed and accuracy with which the virus multiplies. The researchers say that a replacement of this key residue with different amino acids may allow them to generate such mutants of the virus as are essentially harmless.
“We found that very [...]