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6,285 results for: Virus

  1. Life

    New swine flu virus could infect people

    Strains found in Korean pigs contain gene mutations that make them potentially transmissible to humans.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  2. Health & Medicine

    First dengue vaccine trial disappoints

    The shots protect against three of the four viral subtypes, failing to deliver full protection, a study in Thailand shows.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Neuroscience

    Nonstick trick in the brain

    Getting drugs into the brain has proved to be a nanoscale puzzle: Anything bigger than 64 nanometers — about the size of a small virus — gets stuck in the space between brain cells once it gets through the blood-brain barrier. Justin Hanes of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and colleagues got around this rule by coating particles destined for brain cells in a dense layer of a polymer called polyethylene glycol.

    By Sarah Zielinski
  4. Life

    2012 medicine Nobel honors research on reprogramming adult cells

    John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka share this year's prize.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  5. Genetics

    Genetic mutations may explain a brain cancer’s tenacity

    DNA damage may transform adult cells in glioblastoma, making the malignancy harder to kill.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  6. Life

    Cancer cells self-destruct in blind mole rats

    Underground rodents evolved a way to zap mutating tissue.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  7. Life

    Ebola may go airborne

    Infected pigs can transmit virus to primates without contact, a new study finds.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  8. 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.

    By Nathan Seppa
  9. Health & Medicine

    Gene therapy helps counter hemophilia B

    Treatment enables cells to produce a key blood-clotting compound, allowing some patients to quit medication.

    By Nathan Seppa
  10. Health & Medicine

    Bird flu leaves tracks in brain

    H5N1 infection might make survivors vulnerable to Parkinson’s or other neurological disorders, a study in mice indicates.

    By Laura Sanders
  11. Genetics

    Crosses make lab mice even more useful

    Scientists have bred new strains of lab animals with the goal of making it easier to tease out genetic components of complex diseases.

    By Tina Hesman Saey

  12. 2012 AAAS Meeting

    Highlights from the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Vancouver, February 16-20.

    By Science News