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Shaomin Yan

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Research ArticleOpen accessWhat these Trends Suggest?Shaomin Yan, Guang WuProblem statement: Global warming is one of most significant factors affecting the biological evolution and the influenza is the disease that threatens humans with possible epidemics or pandemics. It would be important to understand if the global warming would have potential impact on the evolution of influenza virus. For this aim, the first would be to study the trend of … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 6 · 30 Jun 2009 · 6,886 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessVirus Dynamics in VivoGuang Wu, Shaomin YanIn this study, we model the interaction among antibody, virus, host cell, immune cell and normal cell as random collisions, because antibody and virus are unlikely to have efficient driving systems. Then we use the model II of waiting times to analyze the collision between antibody and virus with a certain number of normal cells, and use the Monte-Carlo simulation … …American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 1, Issue 4 · 31 Dec 2005 · 6,274 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessSearching of Main Cause Leading to Severe Influenza A Virus Mutations and Consequently to Influenza Pandemics/EpidemicsGuang Wu, Shaomin YanThe unpredictable mutations in the proteins from influenza A virus lead to the great difficulty in prevention of possible outbreak of bird flu and pandemic/epidemic of influenza. This unpredictability is due to the fact that we know little about the causes that lead to the mutations. In three of our recent studies on the hemagglutinins from influenza A virus, we … …American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 1, Issue 2 · 30 Jun 2005 · 9,975 accessesView PDF Cite