Dec 5, 2008

Flu Structure, Mp3s, and Magnetic Minestrone

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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 …

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Top Ten Mutants

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 …

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Dec 3, 2008

Shedding Light on Neon Signs

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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