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Closing the book on measles infection - do we know it all?

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Measles infection. (http://biowiki.org) One of most important factors in establishing a viral infection is the presence or absence of ...

On the experimental generation of endogenous (non-retroviral) RNA viruses

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A retrovirus. http://www.itqb.unl.pt/ The sheer amount of genomic data now available from a wide range of species has allowed the inc...

How come direct cell-cell spread of HIV allows ongoing replication in the face of antiviral therapy?

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Our struggle with HIV/AIDS epitomizes societies' millennia-old fight with microbial pathogens. One goal of HIV research is to generate e...

When you say flu, what do you really mean?

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Everyone knows the 'flu when they see it. Its like the cold but only worse, right? But often the public are very quick to brand somethin...

miRNAs, viruses and high blood pressure

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You may have read earlier this week how human cytomegalovirus - a seriously common pathogen - was discovered to be a possible cause of high...

Should vaccinology embrace systems biology?

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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move...

Where did our smallpox vaccine come from?

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Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination Bring to mind the now famous 'first scientific exploration of vaccination', when, in ...

Will viruses eventually hail our destruction?

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#SciDoom The summer of 1918 heralded the arrival of the now infamous strain of influenza virus known from here on as the ' spanish flu ...
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Is there such a thing as a completely broad-spectrum antiviral?

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I'm sure everyone is aware of the kind of effects virus infection and replication has on the health of humans and other animals (just sc...