Piece from childhood virus may save soldiers' lives
Sunday, September 6, 2009 - 02:42
in Health & Medicine
A harmless shard from the shell of a common childhood virus may halt a biological process that kills a significant percentage of battlefield casualties, heart attack victims and oxygen-deprived newborns, according to research presented Sunday, September 6, 2009, at the 12th European meeting on complement in human disease in Budapest, Hungary.