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…from locally captured chimpanzees. If these animals were infected with the precursor of HIV-1, simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), then the virus might have entered the human population during the polio…
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Viruses might provide mucosal immunity
…cells are some of the antimicrobial defenses that are present at various mucosal surfaces. It now appears that bacteriophages – viruses that infect bacteria – might also be part of…
Federal funding for science research
…and over 110,000 researchers from around the world. FASEB is now recognized as the policy voice of biological and biomedical researchers. The decreasing Federal support of biomedical research has had…
Poliovirus silently (and not so silently) spreads
…suggests that the virus has been in the population for an extended period of time and that multiple individuals are shedding virus. Why is wild type virus circulating in Israel?…
Pandoravirus, bigger and unlike anything seen before
…The first is their atypical replication cycle. The virions are taken into amoebae by phagocytic vacuoles, and upon fusing with the vacuole membrane, the virion contents are released into the…
Inadvertent transfer of a mammalian retrovirus into birds
…jump into birds. They determined the genome sequence of an REV isolated from a duck, called duck infectious anemia virus (DIAV), and constructed phylogenies with other available REV sequences. Duck…