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Sekerob
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Computer aid sought to find virus cure
----------------------------------------Researcher plans a PC network to analyze how to attack West Nile. ..... Watowich estimates the analysis will require comparing about 6.5 million molecules to 50 different variants of the protein. Such comparisons "would take dozens and dozens of years on very large computers," assuming researchers could even get that much supercomputer time, he said. Yet because the work can be broken into millions of separate tasks, it can be shared by computers everywhere, each taking on one comparison at a time. With that approach, dubbed "Discovering Dengue Drugs -- Together," Watowich figures the whole thing should take about a year. ....
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bull figher and dengue
i guess he can kill the bulls, but not the dengue  http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070914/wl_nm/spa...lsEPcAeyfEPU2CdMHJ0UEtbAF |
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bull figher and dengue i guess he can kill the bulls, but not the dengue http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070914/wl_nm/spa...lsEPcAeyfEPU2CdMHJ0UEtbAF Of course |
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Pitt opens vaccine lab
The University of Pittsburgh on Monday opened a new lab designed to develop vaccines to counter some of the world's most widespread diseases. The $50 million Center for Vaccine Research is one of 13 in the country that will research methods to fight lethal microbes. The center received funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Just as Jonas Salk and his Pitt team of researchers provided the polio vaccine to the world, the new Center for Vaccine Research will further our university's commitment to developing new interventions to prevent infectious diseases -- interventions that have the potential to significantly improve global health," Pitt Chancellor Mark Nordenberg said in a news release. Among the diseases the center will focus on include SARS, West Nile virus, dengue fever and tuberculosis. |
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REUTERS Article 5 October 07
Dengue fever epidemic hits Caribbean, Latin America SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - Dengue, a mosquito-borne virus that causes high fever, nausea and painful body aches, is reaching epidemic levels in the Caribbean and Latin America, health officials say. Changing weather patterns as well as increased tourism and migration have raised its prevalence, according to a Pan American Health Organization report released this week. ...... The Pan American Health Organization expects dengue cases in the hemisphere to top 1 million this year. Jack |
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BBC News Nov.2.2007: How Hep C bypasses cell defences
----------------------------------------The potentially-fatal hepatitis C virus evades the body's natural defences by slipping directly from cell to cell, scientists have found. This could mean treatments aimed at interrupting its progress won't work as well as hoped. University of Birmingham researchers told a Glasgow conference that this could explain the rapid spread of the virus in some patients......
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Engineered Mosquitoes Could Wipe Out Dengue Fever
----------------------------------------http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/news/2008/01/gm_insects Scientists at a British biotech company said they have evidence that their genetically modified mosquitoes, which are programmed for sudden, early death, can control the spread of dengue fever. Dengue is carried by mosquitoes and is the scourge of urban areas in the developing world, much as malaria is in rural regions. The company, Oxitec, said it can decimate mosquito populations by breeding genetically modified male mosquitoes, then releasing them to mate with wild females. Their offspring contain lethal genes that kill them young, before they can reproduce. Company officials told Wired News that their latest test results show that the genetically modified bugs can breed just as well as wild ones. continued
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