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6,287 results for: Virus

  1. Tumor Tell-All

    Unraveling complex genetic stories in cancer cells may lead to personalized treatment.

    By Tina Hesman Saey

  2. 2011 Science News of the Year

    You can’t make this stuff up. An earthquake and tsunami trigger the worst nuclear accident in decades, contaminating thousands of square kilometers in one of the world’s most densely populated countries. Analyses of a sliver of finger bone reveal that the genes of an extinct human relative survive in many people living today. Single-celled organisms […]

    By Science News

  3. 2011 Science News of the Year: Genes & Cells

    Nicolle Rager Fuller Boons and busts via gut microbes Studying the secret lives of bacteria living in human intestines has yielded some unexpected finds. One study suggests that most humans have one of three different combinations of friendly microbes (SN: 5/21/11, p. 14), and another reveals that people’s mix of microbes depends heavily on diet. […]

    By Science News

  4. 2011 Science News of the Year: Body & Brain

    CHAD SHAW, BRIAN DAWSON, YASUNARI SAKAI, H. ZOGHBI Sifting through autism’s tangled web Each person with an autism spectrum disorder has a different disease, yet some commonalities exist, a flurry of studies reveals (SN: 8/13/11, p. 20). Though the finds don’t point to a clear cause or a cure, they inch researchers closer to a […]

    By Science News
  5. Life

    Deep Life

    Teeming masses of organisms thrive beneath the seafloor.

    By Alexandra Witze
  6. Science & Society

    90th Anniversary Issue: 1950s

    DNA's structure revealed and other highlights, 1950–59

    By Science News
  7. Science & Society

    90th Anniversary Issue: 1980s

    Solving the AIDS puzzle and other highlights, 1980–89

    By Science News
  8. Science & Society

    90th Anniversary Issue: 1990s

    Detecting climate change and other highlights, 1990–99

    By Science News

  9. Another Side to Statins

    Heart-healthy drugs show promise against inflammation, cancer and the flu.

    By Nathan Seppa

  10. Designer Flu

    How scientists made a killer virus airborne — and who should know.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  11. Animals

    Mosquitoes Remade

    Scientists reinvent agents of illness to become allies in fight against disease.

    By Susan Milius
  12. Health & Medicine

    Catching a Cancer

    The official figure for the percentage of human cancers caused by viruses is around 20 percent — but most experts concede that number is largely an educated guess

    By Laura Beil