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Live from the Society for General Microbiology Conference in Manchester, UK

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MicrobeWorld and the Society for General Microbiology (UK) to live stream two events from their Spring Conference 2013 in Manchester, England, March 25-28. Peter Wildy Prize for Microbiology Education Monday, March 25, 2013 17:20 GMT (1:20 PM EST | 10:20 AM PST)   David Bhella, Ph.D., will be accepting the Peter Wildy Prize for Microbiology Education, awarded …

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Receptor for new coronavirus-EMC identified

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Viruses are obligate intracellular parasites, which means that they must enter a cell to reproduce. As virions are too large to diffuse passively across the plasma membrane, cellular pathways for uptake of extracellular materials provide entry routes. The first step in entry is adherence of virus particles to the membrane, an interaction mediated by binding …

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Antimicrobial peptides induced by herpesvirus enhance HIV-1 infection

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The risk of being infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) is substantially enhanced in individuals with other sexually transmitted diseases. For example, infection with herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) increases the risk ratio of acquiring HIV from 2 to 4. Explanations for this increased risk include direct inoculation of HIV-1 into the …

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Harvard University: Great virology, bad science writing

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Harvard University is home to some of the world’s finest virologists. But apparently they do not communicate with the writers at Harvard Magazine, where a botched story on the avian H5N1 influenza virus has just been published. The problems begin with the first paragraph: But when Dutch researchers recently created an even more deadly strain …

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