Viruses and journalism: Off-the-shelf chemicals
…cloned DNA copy of the RNA genome of poliovirus is infectious in mammalian cells. It was the first such finding for an animal virus and made it possible to create…
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Virology at the Deutsches Museum
…for the animal virus kit, which is about $63 US. The kits are slightly cheaper on the company website, Zometool: the animal virus model costs $35. I’m going to order…
Whither 2009 H1N1?
…each year as the virus underwent antigenic drift. If the pattern of H3N2 serves as a guide, we might predict that the 2009 swine-origin H1N1 virus will display pandemic spread…
XMRV not found in 170 additional UK chronic fatigue syndrome patients
A new retrovirus, xenotropic murine leukaemia virus-related virus (XMRV), first identified in tumor tissue of individuals with prostate cancer, was subsequently found in 68 of 101 US patients with chronic…
XMRV not detected in Dutch chronic fatigue patients
…caused by a viral infection and has been associated with a number of viruses, most notably Epstein-Barr virus and human herpes virus but firm evidence for a role of viruses…
How to End this Pandemic
…detects small fragments of RNA that don’t originate from whole virus particles and thus don’t represent transmissible virus. Such RNA fragments can persist in individuals for weeks and months. As…