Dec 5, 2008
Posted in Science at 1:00 pm by David Bradley -- Click to comment
You can read my latest science news updates in spectroscopynow.com:
One flu over - X-ray studies have revealed details of the structure of a protein used by the avian influenza, H5N1, that allows it to hide its RNA from the infected host’s immune system. The structure could provide a new target for the development of antiviral drugs against this potentially lethal virus
Minestrone and magnetic resonance - Researchers in the US and France may have …
Posted in Bird Flu, Science at 1:00 pm by David Bradley -- 3 Comments; add yours
If you ever thought genetics was only about disease, then check out the popular SNPs list on SNPedia. A SNP (pronounced “snip”) is a single nucleotide polymorphism, which in BradSpeak(TM) is basically a difference in a bit of your DNA that makes you different from the rest.
Anyway, here’s the Top Five SNPs that might be described as having no obvious direct medical …
Dec 3, 2008
Posted in Bird Flu, Science at 1:00 pm by David Bradley -- 7 Comments; add yours
As regular readers know, I like to keep a fairly close eye on what Sciencebase visitors are searching for so that I can put together new posts that provide answers to the questions readers want answering. Recently, there has been a spate of search queries related to neon signs. Perhaps not the most exciting of subjects, but there is some nice chemistry to be …
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