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...Equally ominous, Finnish security firm F-Secure reported last week that the world's first mobile-phone virus, known as Cabir, had spread from the Philippines to 12 other countries. Cabir, which infects devices with Bluetooth wireless connectivity, is downloaded by unsuspecting users unaware that they're opening a virus...
Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers say they have achieved a significant victory in the ongoing campaign against HIV by uncovering how the virus changes shape, which has been the main obstacle to developing an effective vaccine...
...scientists and their team crystallized a key protein, known as gp120, found on the membrane of HIV—the virus that causes AIDS. By taking an X-ray image of the crystallized structure, they were able to reveal its shape...
...Harrison’s breakthrough is the similarity between HIV and SIV, or simian immunodeficiency virus, and “noticing that this particular construct derived from SIV is stable” enough to yield crystals, whereas “standard HIV constructs are not stable,” said Harrison...
Scientists have long searched for a way to induce the formation of antibodies that can recognize different strains of a single virus, like the rapidly mutating...