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6,282 results for: Virus

  1. Health & Medicine

    Zealous Adherence: Erratic HIV therapy hasn’t fueled resistance

    Among people infected with HIV, those who don't consistently take their antiretroviral drugs as prescribed are no more likely to develop drug-resistant HIV than are patients who adhere to their treatment schedule.

    By Ben Harder
  2. Materials Science

    Soft spheres yield photonic structures

    A novel technique for patterning light-guiding channels through photonic crystals made of hydrogel nanoparticles may lead to faster, all-optical telecommunications technologies.

    By Alexandra Goho

  3. Faulty Memory: Long-term immunity isn’t always beneficial

    Quickly losing immune-system defenses against some viruses may protect humans from far nastier bugs, a mathematical model suggests.

    By Erica Klarreich
  4. Health & Medicine

    Drug combination unexpectedly flops

    A combination of therapies that researchers anticipated would work well against HIV failed to stop the virus from replicating in more than half the volunteers who received it.

    By Ben Harder
  5. Tech

    Special Delivery: Metallic nanorods shuttle genes

    A new gene therapy technique relies on nanorods made of gold and nickel to deliver genes to cells in the body.

    By Alexandra Goho
  6. Health & Medicine

    Treatment helps newborns avoid HIV

    Giving healthy newborns whose mothers are infected with HIV a combination of anti-HIV drugs shortly after birth makes the infants less likely to contract the virus through breastfeeding.

    By Nathan Seppa
  7. Health & Medicine

    First Viruses, Now Tumors: AIDS drug shows promise against brain cancers

    A potential AIDS drug may also slow the growth of deadly brain tumors.

    By John Travis
  8. Health & Medicine

    Antiviral Advance: Drug disables enzyme from hepatitis C virus

    A new drug prevents the replication of the hepatitis C virus.

    By John Travis
  9. Humans

    Letters

    Letters from the Nov. 15, 2003, issue of Science News.

    By Science News

  10. The good side of a viral infection?

    Hepatitis A infections may protect people from allergies and asthma.

    By John Travis
  11. Health & Medicine

    SARS virus can spread in lab animals

    At least two types of mammals can acquire and transmit the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and Chinese animal traders have high rates of past exposure to the virus.

    By Ben Harder

  12. HIV protein breaks biological clock

    The AIDS virus secretes a protein that interferes with an animal's biological clock.

    By John Travis