Items tagged with virus

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US Shuts Down 'Scareware' Sellers Sunday, December 14th, 2008 - 17:35:23 - Ehud Rattner The US government has moved to shut down sellers of fake security software. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has won a restraining order that stops... read more

Discovery of Virus in Lemur Could Cure AIDS Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 - 12:56:10 - Anuradha Menon The genome of a squirrel-sized, saucer-eyed lemur from Madagascar may help scientists understand how HIV-like viruses coevolved with primates... read more

Forced Evolution: Mutating Viruses to Death? Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 - 16:23:24 - Anuradha Menon Sounds like a science fiction movie: A killer contagion threatens the Earth, but scientists save the day with a designer drug that forces the virus... read more

AVG Virus Scanner Removes OS Component Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 - 10:45:49 - Anuradha Menon One popular free antivirus scanner recently created a world of woe for its users. The world of computer security can be a scary place for friends and... read more

'Junk' DNA Proves Difference Between Humans Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 - 16:14:25 - Anuradha Menon n a paper published in Genome Research on November 4, 2008, scientists at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) discovered that what was previously... read more

Advance in Pluripotent Cell Creation Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 - 12:11:12 - Anuradha Menon A team of Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) scientists has taken an important step toward producing induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells that are... read more

Nobel Prize in Medicine 2008 Announced Monday, October 6th, 2008 - 05:04:06 - Iddo Genuth The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2008 with one half to Harald zur... read more

Anti-Obesity Drugs Effective Against FLU? Monday, September 29th, 2008 - 09:57:30 - Ehud Rattner Viruses dramatically increase cellular metabolism, and existing anti-obesity drugs may represent a new way to block these metabolic changes and... read more

Stem Cells Created Without Viruses Friday, September 26th, 2008 - 09:51:21 - Ehud Rattner For the first time, biologists have reprogrammed adult mouse cells back to an embryonic state without using viruses that leave dangerous copies of... read more

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