Tag: virus
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Coronavirus epidemic. Hand washing. The art of simple. And other ‘little things’…
According to scientists, to fight an epidemic, focus on hand washing. (1) An advice which came into light just as the epidemic of the coronavirus is gaining momentum. We have been so much focused on high-tech and elaborate methods of dealing with diseases, that we have forgotten the greatest weapon we ever devised against disease…
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Infected by a virus. Thinking. Being alive. Being subjective. Being You.
While conducting a totally separate experiment, a group of scientists from Johns Hopkins and the University of Nebraska accidentally discovered something unexpected and potentially disturbing. A virus was living in the mouths and throats of a good portion of the people in the study, a virus that the researchers didn’t think was capable of infecting…
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Gut, viruses, life itself…
Odds are, there’s a virus living inside your gut that has gone undetected by scientists for decades. A new study has found that more than half the world’s population is host to a newly described virus, named crAssphage, which infects one of the most common gut bacterial species, Bacteroides. This bacterium thought to be connected…
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Medicine into Law…
Problems have risen related to who owns the new MERS-CoV virus that stroke Saudi Arabia. [1] Some even say that IP (Intellectual Property) claims over the new deadly virus could hinder scientific research towards finding a cure. Medicine turning into Law…
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Synthetic vaccines, natural fears…
British scientists develop a new way to create an entirely synthetic vaccine which does not rely on using live infectious virus, meaning it is much safer. [1] Safer for the virus it is supposed to kill, that is… Because if vaccines based on live viruses have problems with success rates, I can only have nightmares on the success…
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