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6,282 results for: Virus

  1. Health & Medicine

    Ingredient might prevent sexually transmitted disease

    A seaweed derivative that's commonly added to many consumer products as a thickening agent can inhibit the virus that causes cervical cancer and genital warts.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Male circumcision could avert millions of HIV infections

    Mass circumcision of boys and men in sub-Saharan Africa could avert 2.7 million new cases of HIV infection over the next decade.

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  3. 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.

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  4. Unusual tumor is contagious in dogs

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

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  5. 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.

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  6. 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.

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  7. 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.

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  8. 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.

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  9. 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.

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  10. 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.

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  11. 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.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Antiviral drug may limit herpes spread

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

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