Researchers say they have pinpointed a major predictor of the development of childhood asthma: the common cold virus, or rhinovirus.
... in the home, including the refrigerator door, TV remote, and faucet, are contaminated with the cold virus (also called rhinovirus), which can then be transferred to fingertips following contact.
Catching the common cold virus: BYU researchers coming down with the rhinovirus genome A new ... infections."
Understanding where change occurs in the virus genome will help virologists who work to design ...
... for the immune system: New research has boosted the number of likely common-cold viruses waiting to make you miserable from the long-accepted 100 to perhaps double that number.
... time as scores of symptom severity went down. It was this evidence that verified the triggering connection between the cold virus and the immune white cell response inside the nose and sinuses, says ...
... of nasal epithelial cells, which line the passages of the nose, from the volunteers. Rhinovirus-16 and other cold viruses infect these nasal cells, which are the body's first line of defense against ...
A virus that causes cold-like symptoms in humans originated in birds and may have crossed the species barrier around 200 years ago, according to an article published in the December issue of the ...
... room temperature in 30 volunteers with common cold symptoms.
The Centre's Director, Professor Ron ... falling and Christmas just round the corner, cold viruses love this time of year. Having a bottle ...
... appear about three times as likely to develop respiratory illness following exposure to a cold virus as those who sleep eight hours or more, according to a report in the January 12 issue of Archives ...
... of sleep deprivation can keep your body from staving off the cold virus, a new study shows.
People who sleep ...
... infections, pneumonia and gastrointestinal disease. More than 50 unique serotypes of the virus have been identified, with even more expected to be isolated.
Adenovirus outbreaks are difficult to ...
... Medicine, notes that the relative paucity of information about the genetic composition of the many strains of cold virus has slowed the development of effective drugs to prevent infection, medicine ...
... (CF) patients to see any benefit from gene therapy.
Using parainfluenza virus, one of the viruses that causes common colds, the UNC scientists found that delivery of a corrected version of the CFTR ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- UQ scientist Ian Mackay is always on the lookout for that lucky find - well, if you consider unknown strains of the common cold virus lucky.
... engineered common cold virus, UCLA researchers delivered a genetic payload to prostate cancer ... nodes with cancer cell involvement, indicating the virus reached and infected the prostate cancer cells ...
