Search Results for: Virus

Open the calendar Use the arrow keys to select a date

Can’t find what you’re looking for? Visit our FAQ page.

6,295 results

6,295 results for: Virus

  1. Health & Medicine

    Fewer Drugs, Same Outcome: Simpler HIV regimens are effective

    In two studies, AIDS clinicians found that standard three-drug regimens fight HIV as well as four-drug treatments do, and that a single drug might maintain a patient's health once the virus is suppressed.

    By Eric Jaffe

  2. Unusual tumor is contagious in dogs

    A type of cancer in dogs is transferred from animal to animal by exchange of cancer cells.

    By Christen Brownlee

  3. 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.

    By Christen Brownlee
  4. Health & Medicine

    Herpes simplex viruses dip in prevalence

    Two viruses that cause genital herpes decreased in prevalence in the United States during the past 2 decades.

    By Ben Harder
  5. Tech

    Size Matters: Biosensors behave oddly when very small

    There might be a limit to how small physicists should build tiny sensors that detect viruses and molecules.

    By Eric Jaffe
  6. Health & Medicine

    Shingles shot’s value is uncertain

    The cost-effectiveness of a new vaccine against shingles remains uncertain, making it difficult to assess whether adults should routinely receive the shot.

    By Ben Harder
  7. Health & Medicine

    The Bad Fight: Immune systems harmed 1918 flu patients

    The 1918 Spanish flu virus may have launched an intense immune attack that devastated patients' lungs.

    By Christen Brownlee
  8. Humans

    Nobel prizes recognize things great and small

    The 2006 Nobel prizes in the sciences were announced this week, and all five winners are U.S. scientists.

    By Christen Brownlee, Peter Weiss and Aimee Cunningham

  9. Hotel-room surfaces can harbor viruses

    Rhinovirus, which is responsible for roughly half of all common colds, survives on surfaces in hotel rooms for hours and can be transferred from there to people.

    By Nathan Seppa
  10. Health & Medicine

    Antiviral drug may limit herpes spread

    In people with genital herpes, the drug famciclovir sharply reduces virus shedding from the genitalia.

    By Nathan Seppa
  11. Health & Medicine

    Prep Work: Bird-flu vaccine might work better with primer

    Giving people a vaccine against an existing form of avian influenza might help them respond better when given a shot for a future strain of the virus during a pandemic.

    By Nathan Seppa
  12. Health & Medicine

    Dengue strikes United States

    Texas has been hit with the first-ever outbreak of dengue hemorrhagic fever in the continental United States.

    By Nathan Seppa