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Sars Virus Cracked?
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Sars Virus Cracked?
A New Orlean Scientist may have cracked the SARs virus.
http://www.wwltv.com/local/WWL050103Sar ... bd5f3.html
http://www.wwltv.com/local/WWL050103Sar ... bd5f3.html
...I thought it had already been isolated....?
might add that even though it has been:
identified this week....next week it may mutate again...i think it will be a tough nut to crack
kinda like Acme pet,,it would not let me::
register....the word must be out....
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Here is the article...
N.O. scientists may have found key to SARS virus
05/01/2003
MEG FARRIS / WWL-TV Medical Reporter
Scientists in labs around the world have been trying to crack the code to what makes the SARS virus so potent, so deadly. But now there’s a breakthrough in New Orleans that could put the worldwide community on the right track to find a treatment.
Microbiologist Dr. William Gallaher of the LSU Health Sciences Center says he's discovered the way that the SARS virus actually enters a healthy human cell and infects it.
WWL-TV
The SARS sequence
This discovery comes after 15 years of working with Tulane scientist Dr. Robert Garry with the Ebola virus and the AIDS virus and figuring out how those two viruses invade healthy cells. They also looked at how similar they are to this new SARS virus.
“It's really remarkable and beautiful thing the way these viruses have these regions,” said Gallaher. “You can go from one to the other, to the other, to the other.”
Gallaher's “eureka” moment came one Sunday at his home. Other scientists had figured out the genetic sequence, fingerprint, of the SARS virus and posted it on the Internet.
“I was watching the Masters Tournament and after the Masters switched to a news channel and a little ribbon going along the bottom said that the Canadians had posted the sequence on the web,” said Gallaher. “So I went to my home computer and pulled it up and was able then to analyze that and within an hour had found the similarities between the SARS virus and these other viruses.”
Because this is an international health emergency, Dr. Gallaher will not wait to publish his discovery in a medical journal. He will enter his information on a virology website where scientists from around the world can instantly use this knowledge.
He says when the scientific community sees how this SARS protein latches on to human cells; they may realize that an anti-viral medication already on the market can block it from getting in the cells.
Or it may be bad news. This new discovery may tell them that a brand new anti-viral medication needs to be made, researched and tested.
If the new drug needs to be made, how LSU and Tulane could benefit from this discovery.
Dr. Gallaher has filed for a patent on this discovery, but if a drug is already on the market that fights the way SARS enters cells, then there is some financial benefit for a new use on an old drug.
But if an entirely new drug needs to be made, than it could lead to major business collaboration with a pharmaceutical company.
05/01/2003
MEG FARRIS / WWL-TV Medical Reporter
Scientists in labs around the world have been trying to crack the code to what makes the SARS virus so potent, so deadly. But now there’s a breakthrough in New Orleans that could put the worldwide community on the right track to find a treatment.
Microbiologist Dr. William Gallaher of the LSU Health Sciences Center says he's discovered the way that the SARS virus actually enters a healthy human cell and infects it.
WWL-TV
The SARS sequence
This discovery comes after 15 years of working with Tulane scientist Dr. Robert Garry with the Ebola virus and the AIDS virus and figuring out how those two viruses invade healthy cells. They also looked at how similar they are to this new SARS virus.
“It's really remarkable and beautiful thing the way these viruses have these regions,” said Gallaher. “You can go from one to the other, to the other, to the other.”
Gallaher's “eureka” moment came one Sunday at his home. Other scientists had figured out the genetic sequence, fingerprint, of the SARS virus and posted it on the Internet.
“I was watching the Masters Tournament and after the Masters switched to a news channel and a little ribbon going along the bottom said that the Canadians had posted the sequence on the web,” said Gallaher. “So I went to my home computer and pulled it up and was able then to analyze that and within an hour had found the similarities between the SARS virus and these other viruses.”
Because this is an international health emergency, Dr. Gallaher will not wait to publish his discovery in a medical journal. He will enter his information on a virology website where scientists from around the world can instantly use this knowledge.
He says when the scientific community sees how this SARS protein latches on to human cells; they may realize that an anti-viral medication already on the market can block it from getting in the cells.
Or it may be bad news. This new discovery may tell them that a brand new anti-viral medication needs to be made, researched and tested.
If the new drug needs to be made, how LSU and Tulane could benefit from this discovery.
Dr. Gallaher has filed for a patent on this discovery, but if a drug is already on the market that fights the way SARS enters cells, then there is some financial benefit for a new use on an old drug.
But if an entirely new drug needs to be made, than it could lead to major business collaboration with a pharmaceutical company.
SARS news..
It appears the virus is rapidly mutating, at least according to scientists in HK.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... g_cases_dc
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... g_cases_dc