Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Clinical histone deacetylase inhibitors are effective against COVID-19
COVID-19, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has posed serious health threats to humanity and jeopardized the global economy.
Dec 14, 2020
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News tagged with viral surface
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Most COVID-19 infections are spread through respiratory droplets or aerosols and not surfaces: study
COVID-19 is spread most often through respiratory droplets or aerosols and little evidence exists supporting transmission through surfaces. As such, social distance and proper ventilation are key determinants of transmission ...
Sep 18, 2020
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Medical research
Cellular calpain proteases can cleave the enteroviral polyprotein
Enteroviruses are small, non-enveloped RNA viruses, which belong to the family of picornaviruses. Although most of the diseases that enteroviruses cause are symptomless or mild, enteroviruses are the most common viruses infecting ...
Nov 19, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Cellular protein a target for Zika control
A cellular protein that interacts with invading viruses appears to help enable the infection process of the Zika virus, according to an international team of researchers who suggest this protein could be a key target in developing ...
Jan 15, 2019
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HIV & AIDS
Team devises a new method that could speed up vaccine development for HIV
Around 1% of patients with HIV - known as elite controllers - are able to survive without antiviral treatment, because their immune systems produce certain kinds of HIV-specific antibodies: proteins that recognise features ...
May 25, 2017
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Medical research
Researchers gain insights to redirect leading HIV cure strategy
Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has provided the first evidence that viruses and hosts share highly similar regulatory sequences in their promoters—the initiation sequences of human genes that ...
May 2, 2017
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Immunology
Scientists unravel how herpesviruses fight against our immune system
Pathogens entering our body only remain unnoticed for a short period. Within minutes our immune cells detect the invader and trigger an immune response. However, some viruses have developed strategies to avoid detection and ...
Jun 6, 2014
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Medical research
Unmasking viral invaders: Device used in physics reveals dynamics of pervasive pathogen
If you have it, you probably don't know it. Cytomegalovirus, or CMV, is perhaps one of the biggest pathogens you've never heard of—big, both proportionately and epidemiologically. It contains approximately 200 genes, compared ...
Jun 5, 2014
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HIV & AIDS
Study finds 'Achilles heel' of key HIV replication protein
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine may have found an "Achilles heel" in a key HIV protein. In findings published online today in Chemistry and Biology, they showed that targeting this vulnerable ...
Jan 24, 2013
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Immunology
Ebola virus uses a protein decoy to subvert the host immune response
In a study published today in the Open Access journal PLOS Pathogens, researchers at Emory University have discovered a potentially important mechanism by which the Ebola virus alters and evades the immune response of its ...
Dec 13, 2012
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