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6,261 results for: Virus

  1. Health & Medicine

    Roll Up Your Sleeve: Hypertension vaccine passes early test

    An angiotensin vaccine stifles high blood pressure in an early test in people.

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  2. Sickness and Schizophrenia: Psychotic ills tied to previous infections

    Two new studies provide evidence for the longstanding suspicion that certain viral infections early in life promote the development of schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Wrong Way: HIV vaccine hinders immunity in mice

    An HIV vaccine hurts, not helps, the immune systems of mice, say scientists.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    ‘Knuckle fever’ reaches Italy

    A virus that causes debilitating fever and joint pain has spread from Africa to Italy, where it has caused at least 284 cases of illness.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Surviving HIV

    Since the development in the mid-1990s of a state-of-the-art drug cocktail for HIV, patient survival has extended dramatically, a new study shows.

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  6. Tech

    Biowarfare: Engineered virus can invade bacterial film

    A genetically engineered virus not only kills bacteria but makes an enzyme that breaks up the biofilm in which the bacteria live.

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  7. Plants

    Parasitic plant gets more than a meal

    The parasitic vine known as dodder really sucks. It pierces the tissue of other plants — some of which are important crops — extracting water and nutrients needed for its own growth. But it also consumes molecules that scientists could manipulate to bring on the parasite’s demise.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Infectious Obesity: Adenovirus fattens stem cells

    Some cases of obesity may result from infection by a virus that can transform adult stem cells into fat-storing cells.

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  9. Life

    Leaf clippings as protein factories

    Using plants to mass produce proteins for vaccines and other purposes may soon be possible without genetically engineering whole plants.

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  10. From the October 16, 1937, issue

    Biological prospecting on two remote mesas near the Grand Canyon, a newly described and widespread form of meningitis, and primate fossils from the Crazy Mountains of Montana.

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  11. Hold the Embryos: Genes turn skin into stem cells

    Scientists have found a way to convert a person's skin cells directly into stem cells without creating and destroying embryos.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    HIV is double trouble for brain

    The virus that causes AIDS can also cause dementia, by both killing mature brain cells and blocking the creation of new ones.

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