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6,251 results for: Virus

  1. 19309

    This article on the Ebola virus’ deadly glycoprotein was frightening enough, but even more terrifying to me was the fact that the researchers had genetically engineered a cold virus, one of the most easily transmitted and successful viruses on the planet, to carry the Ebola glycoprotein. I hope that modified virus never escapes the laboratory, […]

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  2. Tech

    Snappy DNA: Long strand folds into octahedron

    By harnessing the self-assembling properties of DNA, researchers coerced a single strand of the genetic material to assume the shape of an octahedron.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Infectious Notion

    Lessons from gene therapy promote viruses as cancer fighters.

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  4. Materials Science

    Making Stuff Last

    Chemistry and materials science step up to preserve history, old and new.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Select immune cells help marrow grafts

    By excising certain immune cells from donor bone marrow, physicians have devised a new way of performing marrow transplants.

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  6. Memorable Shot: Smallpox vaccine has lasting effect

    People vaccinated against smallpox decades ago may retain significant immunity to the virus that causes the disease.

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  7. Is that salamander virus flying?

    Scientists searching for the carrier of the iridovirus causing a salamander disease have dismissed frogs and fish, but not birds.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Domestic Disease: Exotic pets bring pathogens home

    The potentially deadly monkeypox virus has spread from Africa to people in several states via infected pet prairie dogs.

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  9. 19163

    Why has so much focus been placed on protecting us against the threat of a smallpox outbreak when a terrorist could choose to release a different infectious disease? Wouldn’t it be wiser to discuss ways to respond to and contain any unknown disease? More public awareness of this possibility would prevent the false sense of […]

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  10. Materials Science

    Soft spheres yield photonic structures

    A novel technique for patterning light-guiding channels through photonic crystals made of hydrogel nanoparticles may lead to faster, all-optical telecommunications technologies.

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  11. Viruses that slay bacteria draw new interest

    Bacteriophages, viruses that kill bacteria, may be able to cure seafood poisoning, decontaminate poultry, and tackle anthrax.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Drug combination unexpectedly flops

    A combination of therapies that researchers anticipated would work well against HIV failed to stop the virus from replicating in more than half the volunteers who received it.

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