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6,251 results for: Virus

  1. Health & Medicine

    TB vaccine gets a needed boost

    An experimental vaccine against tuberculosis imparts significant immunity, but only in people who have previously received the existing bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccine for TB.

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  2. Physics

    Tense encounters drive a nanomotor

    Exploiting the relative strength of surface tension forces in the world of tiny objects, a novel type of nanomotor creates a powerful thrust each time molten metal droplets merge.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Liver transplants succeed in many hepatitis C patients

    People who receive liver transplants for hepatitis C infections fare about as well as people getting such transplants for other diseases.

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  4. Hearing Repaired: Gene therapy restores guinea pigs’ hearing

    By turning on a gene that's normally active only during embryonic development, researchers have restored hearing in deaf guinea pigs.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Adopted protein might be MS culprit

    A protein called syncytin might play a role in causing degradation of the fatty myelin sheath that insulates nerves, damage that leads to multiple sclerosis.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    In Pixels and in Health

    By simulating individual cells and their behavior inside the human body using a computer technique called agent-based modeling, scientists are gaining new insight into disease progression.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Pathogenic partners prompt pneumonia

    A study of infants has shown that bacterial and viral pathogens may act together in causing pneumonia, a finding that could affect treatment options.

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  8. Materials Science

    Magnetic nanorods on cruise control

    Chemists have created miniature engines out of nanoscale metallic rods that propel themselves using chemical energy.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    A Virus Crosses Over to Wild-Animal Hunters

    A potentially dangerous virus is moving from nonhuman primates to Africans who hunt and eat wild animals, a new study suggests.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Primate virus found in zoo workers

    Viruses related to HIV can be found in the blood of some zoo staff and other people who work with primates, although the infections don't appear to be harmful.

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  11. Humans

    Nobel prizes: The power of original thinking

    The 2005 Nobel prizes in the sciences honor a gutsy move, optical brilliance, and chemical crossovers.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    SARS Control: First nasal vaccine effective in monkeys

    An experimental SARS vaccine, tested in monkeys, can be administered directly to the respiratory tract and requires only a single dose to confer immunity.

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