Tag Archives: virus

Flu prevention and cure if infected close at hand?

Posted on April 24, 2011 by rndsync

A lot of people get sick every year due to the influenza virus. Some are hospitalized and a few even die. It’s intersting to see how the hospitalization rates varied over years CDC tracks this very closely as they do … Continue reading →

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A better understanding of how Flu invades our bodies and cells helps give us better insight into prevention and mitigation

Posted on February 20, 2011 by rndsync

This is a very good article on the NSF website and research work on understanding common flu and also possibly H1N1 and other variants. In order to infect a healthy cell, a flu virus must enter the cell (upper left) … Continue reading →

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smart virus

Posted on February 2, 2011 by rndsync

RNA viruses are pretty clever. They use various different mechanisms to replicate that’s mostly like DNA (using a polymerase or forming a polymerase in the host cell that helps in replicating the RNA effectively the virion). Penn State researchers have … Continue reading →

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