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  1. Re:AIDS pulling a revolutionary new trick on HIV Transmission Captured On Video · · Score: 1

    pretty much anything that can cause cell-to-cell fusion at a neutral pH can do this.
    http://www.nature.com/nrmicro/journal/v6/n11/abs/nrmicro1972.html
    The initial stages of animal virus infection are generally described as the binding of free virions to permissive target cells followed by entry and replication. Although this route of infection is undoubtedly important, many viruses that are pathogenic for humans, including HIV-1, herpes simplex virus and measles, can also move between cells without diffusing through the extracellular environment. Cell-to-cell spread not only facilitates rapid viral dissemination, but may also promote immune evasion and influence disease. This Review discusses the various mechanisms by which viruses move directly between cells and the implications of this for viral dissemination and pathogenesis.

  2. Re:AIDS pulling a revolutionary new trick on HIV Transmission Captured On Video · · Score: 1

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14527282 for reference to the smallpox cell-to-cell infection

  3. Archaea on The Tree of Life Consolidates · · Score: 5, Informative

    Let's not forget that many scientists think there are three domains (Prokaryotes, Eukaryotes and Archaea). Archaea are very similar to Prokaryotes in that they don't have a nucleus, but they also share many features with Eukaryotes, including several key enzymes. Due to their similarity to the two other lineages, it is thought that Archaea may in fact be the grand daddy of all life. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaea

  4. 30,000 word medical dictionary on A Spell-Checker for Scientific Terms? · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Pubmed on A Spell-Checker for Scientific Terms? · · Score: 1

    This guy has made a dictionary for vet school that conatains over 30,000 words. I had a quick look through, and it had most of the words i searched for. It's available as a zip file, and designed for ms word. http://www.isdn.net/scottsmith/interests/medicalsc hool/Technology/MSWordDictionary/

  6. Pubmed on A Spell-Checker for Scientific Terms? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I had this idea a while ago. Probably every science major does. Anyways, dictionary files are simple, just the word followed by an endline. So all you need is a good database. A good one for biology is pubmed over at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=P ubMed&itool=toolbar They offer a way to download all their abstracts. Most are spell checked, and they should, in culmination, include most every biological word. So, download their abstracts (i think they are in xml) parse them (delete duplicates and words in a normal dictionary... maybe words with numbers) and put them into a txt file followed by an endline. Done.