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6,261 results for: Virus

  1. Science & Society

    90th Anniversary Issue: 1980s

    Solving the AIDS puzzle and other highlights, 1980–89

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Like a prion, Alzheimer’s protein seeds itself in the brain

    Injecting amyloid-beta into mice may induce misfolding of native amyloid-beta molecules, leading to the buildup associated with the neuron-killing disease.

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  3. Life

    A new way to breach the blood-brain barrier

    Researchers working with rodents have found a drug that can temporarily open a door for treatments.

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  4. Into the Fold

    Flat structures pop into 3-D forms, yielding miniature robots and tools.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Little Mind Benders

    Parasites that sneak into the brain may alter your behavior and health.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Immune booster also works in reverse

    Injections of the protein interleukin-2 can calm runaway defenses that damage tissues in the body, two studies show.

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  7. Letters

    Finding parasitic behavior Two adjacent stories, both by Tina Hesman Saey, at first glance may appear to be unrelated but in actuality show examples of a well-known phenomenon: parasites adversely affecting the behavior of the host so that the parasite can get to its next victim. The article “Belly bacteria can boss the brain” (SN: […]

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Spotting newborns at risk of hearing loss

    Testing for cytomegalovirus in saliva of infants can identify those harboring the virus, a new study shows.

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  9. Life

    Antibiotics may make fighting flu harder

    The drugs kill helpful bacteria that keep the immune system primed against viral infections.

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  10. Humans

    Bat killer is still spreading

    Since 2006, some 6 million to 7 million North American bats have succumbed to white-nose syndrome, a virulent fungal disease. That figure, issued in January by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, at least sextupled the former estimate that biologists had been touting. But the sharp jump in the cumulative death toll isn’t the only disturbing new development. On April 2, scientists confirmed that white-nose fungus has apparently struck bats hibernating in two small Missouri caves. The first signs of clinical disease have also just emerged in Europe.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    New drug boosts hepatitis C treatments

    An experimental medication has cleared a major hurdle and seems poised for FDA approval, two studies show.

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  12. Tech

    When Networks Network

    Once studied solo, systems display surprising behavior when they interact.

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