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6,251 results for: Virus

  1. Health & Medicine

    Viral protein could help liver therapy

    Researchers have developed a method of delivering gene therapies to targeted cells that makes use of viral proteins rather than whole virus particles.

    By Ben Harder

  2. Out of China: SARS virus’ genome hints at independent evolution

    The newly identified SARS virus is the product of a long and private evolutionary history, clues from its genome suggest.

    By Ben Harder
  3. Health & Medicine

    Checkmate for a Child-Killer?

    If a new generation of vaccines pans out, the days of rotavirus, which kills at least 450,000 infants and children every year by causing severe diarrhea, may be numbered.

    By Ben Harder
  4. Humans

    Letters

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

    By Science News
  5. Health & Medicine

    Can poliovirus fix spinal cord damage?

    Scientists have devised a version of the poliovirus that can deliver genes to motor neurons without harming them, a step toward a gene therapy that reawakens idle neurons in people with spinal cord damage.

    By Nathan Seppa
  6. 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
  7. Health & Medicine

    Protective virus ties up HIV docking sites

    A harmless virus that seems to keep HIV infections from progressing to AIDS appears to do so by occupying key molecular receptors on immune cells.

    By Nathan Seppa

  8. Human, Mouse, Rat . . . What’s Next?

    Scientists lobby for a chimpanzee genome project.

    By John Travis
  9. 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
  10. Life

    All the World’s a Phage

    There are an amazing number of bacteriophages—viruses that kill bacteria—in the world.

    By John Travis
  11. Health & Medicine

    Gene therapy thwarts hepatitis C in mice

    Gene therapy that induces infected liver cells to self-destruct slows hepatitis C dramatically in mice.

    By Nathan Seppa
  12. Materials Science

    One-Upping Nature’s Materials

    Striving for designer substances that build themselves from individual molecules.

    By Jessica Gorman