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6,251 results for: Virus

  1. Health & Medicine

    Male circumcision could avert millions of HIV infections

    Mass circumcision of boys and men in sub-Saharan Africa could avert 2.7 million new cases of HIV infection over the next decade.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    See Blind Mice: Algae gene makes sightless eyes sense light

    Scientists have prompted mouse-eye cells that aren't normally light sensitive to respond to light.

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  3. Computing

    Network Inoculation: Antivirus shield would outrace cyber infections

    As a new way to protect a computer network from viruses, an epidemic of antiviral protection could theoretically propagate faster through the network than the virus itself, thanks to a novel topological twist.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Vice Vaccines

    Vaccines currently in development could give people a novel way to kick their addictions and lose weight.

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  5. Animals

    Poor Devils: Critters’ fights transmit cancer

    Tasmanian devils transmit cancer cells when they bite each other during routine squabbles, producing lesions that are often fatal.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Ebola may travel on the wing

    Fruit bats can carry the Ebola virus, suggesting that they may spread it in Africa.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Dangerous History

    The genome of the TB bacterium has small but significant pockets of diversity, giving scientists new targets for preventing and treating the disease.

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  8. Killer Findings: Scientists piece together 1918-flu virus

    Two new studies shed light on the 1918-flu virus by wrapping up efforts to sequence its genome and reconstructing its genes into a living model.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Milk Therapy

    Breast milk has long been known to be the best food for babies, but compounds in breast milk promise to be a tonic for many adult ills as well.

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  10. Engineering a Cure: Genetically modified cells fight cancer

    By inserting a gene into normal immune cells isolated from melanoma patients, scientists have turned the cells into cancer fighters.

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  11. Humans

    From the September 19, 1936, issue

    A nebula photographed, thin films, and cancer as uncontrolled cell growth.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Open Water, Open Mouths: Scuba divers face infection risks

    A new study takes a stab at quantifying the risks that waterborne bacteria and viruses pose to scuba divers.

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