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Published on
10/2/2009 de Sotira Trifourki, Manchester, UK
in categories: Biology,Chemistry,Physics
Disarming the flu virus has become a key strategy in the battle
against the flu. Scientists in Grenoble in France have made a
breakthrough in research into how the virus attacks the human
body. Powerful X-ray imaging has enabled them to learn more
about its main weapon - a so called "knife" used by the
virus to access and hijack human proteins which it needs to
reproduce. Deprive the virus of its knife and the battle is won so
the theory goes.
Published on
8/24/2009 de Catalin Mosoia, Bucharest, Romania
in categories: Science and politics,Astronomy,Chemistry,Medicine,Personalia,Space,Science and sport
Cancer. Obesity. Robot. Astronomy and peace. Premier League.
Life and comet. These are the keywords for the week that has just
passed.
Published on
3/17/2009 de Gabriella Ficz, Cambridge, UK
in categories: Science communication,Biology,Chemistry,Genetics,Medicine,Personalia
It has always been known that a good mother-child contact leads
to healthier and happier babies and adults. But what would happen
if we knew that early life nurturing affects our genes and can
leave life long imprints in our genome? This is a research focus of
Patrick McGowan and his colleagues at the Douglas Mental Health
University Institute in Montreal, Canada, who found that suicide
victims with a history of childhood abuse are more prone to carry
stable chemical modification on their DNA that will cause impaired
response to stress later in life, published in a recent volume of
Nature Neuroscience (McGowan et al., 2009).