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Can Quantum Creatures Be Created In The Lab?

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 - 18:03:15 - Anuradha Menon

Quantum weirdness could soon invade the living world, if a scheme to give a flu virus a strange double life comes off. The method might work on more...

Zoos Help Track Spread of Pandemics

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 - 13:57:06 - Ehud Rattner

Zoos are being drafted by the US government to track the spread of avian influenza this spring. But there seem to be no plans yet to use the zoo...

Tests on H1N1 Virus Begin in UK

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009 - 15:50:58 - Ehud Rattner

Virologists in the United Kingdom have begun working on samples of the swine flu virus — influenza A (H1N1) — to understand how it may mutate in the...

Flu Vaccine Effective with Microneedle Patch

Thursday, April 30th, 2009 - 16:42:02 - Anuradha Menon

Flu vaccine delivered through skin patches containing microneedles has proven just as effective at preventing influenza in mice as intramuscular...

Human Antibodies Neutralize Avian Flu
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 - Anni Shaer Levitt
A recent study conducted at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research in California, led by Professor Robert Liddington...

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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...

Maps Point the Way to Fighting the Flu Virus

Friday, April 25th, 2008 - 08:00:13 - Ehud Rattner

In the same way that a road map helps drivers make sense of otherwise cryptic directions, a team of scientists has developed software that allows...

Researchers Explain Spread of 1918 Flu

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 - 20:19:45 - Iddo Genuth

MIT researchers have explained why two mutations in the H1N1 avian flu virus allowed the disease to spread during the 1918 pandemic that killed at...

Bird Flu Vaccination Ready?
Friday, October 12th, 2007 - Asaf Peer
A European consortium has developed a vaccination against the avian H7N1 Influenza. The new vaccination achieved good...