25 July 2001
Human Herpes Simplex Virus can be attenuated by genetic engineering and used to transfer genes to specific cells in gene therapy
or in the treatment of cancer.
24 July 2001
Tuberculosis is difficult to treat because its causative agent, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, tends to generalise and thus spreads
from the lungs, its point of entry into a patient, to other parts of the body.
24 July 2001
Michael Lorenz and Gerald Fink have identified the molecular mechanism that allows yeasts to survive inside cells and cause
life-threatening systemic infections.
24 July 2001
The Federation of Veterinarians of Europe is an umbrella organisation of veterinary organisations from more than 30 European
countries.
25 July 2001
Seasonal cycles of infectious diseases have been variously attributed to changes in atmospheric conditions, the prevalence
or virulence of the pathogen, and the behaviour of the host.
25 July 2001
A group of scientists from Israel has published results of work they have been carrying out on the development of a urine
test for the diagnosis of bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
25 July 2001
Borna disease virus preferentially targets neurons of limbic structures, causing behavioural abnormalities in animals.
24 July 2001
BSE has been diagnosed in a British cow born on 4th December 1996, just 4 months after the date when control measures on animal
feed were considered to have been implemented.
24 July 2001
News updates on West Nile virus infections and foot and mouth disease are available at ProMED-mail.
24 July 2001
PulseNet, the USA’s national molecular subtyping network for foodborne disease surveillance, was established by the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention and several state health department laboratories.
24 July 2001
Nature has announced the launch of a new online news service.
25 July 2001
This five-day seminar was originally planned to take place in May this year, but has been postponed due to the outbreak of
foot and mouth disease.
9 July 2001
Most laboratories now depend on pulsed-field gel electrophoresis.
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9 July 2001
Human trials to test a vaccine against the West Nile virus that has spread to the US could begin early next year
16 July 2001
The remains of some of the 469,000 cattle culled in the British fight against foot-and-mouth disease are likely to carry bovine
spongiformencephalopathy.
9 July 2001
Immunologically reactive HIV-1 tat protein may become an important component of vaccines.
10 July 2001
Milk containing Lactobacillus GG appears to slightly reduce the rate and severity of respiratory infections.
10 July 2001
A total of 10 outbreaks of Classical Swine Fever in fattening and breeding pigs has been reported from Spain.
11 July 2001
Two domestic outdoor cats have tested positive for the plague bacterium.
10 July 2001
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has confirmed an outbreak of Spring Viraemia of Carp.
10 July 2001
Increasing the expression of integrin dramatically improves the ability of adult neurons to regenerate.
10 July 2001
Diseases like scrapie, BSE and its human counterpart, new variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease can be diagnosed only by post-mortem
examination.
11 July 2001
Ultraviolet light, ionizing radiation and a variety of chemicals damage DNA, breaking either or both of its strands.
11 July 2001
A dispute over whether bacterial genes have been transferred directly to humans is laid to rest.
11 July 2001
How the immune system responds to tumours probably depends on the location and properties of tumour cells early in their development.
11 July 2001
Researchers investigating the inner workings of the cell, or testing how cells might be affected by potential new drugs, would
welcome non-invasive ways to manipulate and visualize small subsections (microdomains) of cells.
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