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6,312 results for: Virus

  1. Book Review: How We Live and Why We Die: The Secret Lives of Cells by Lewis Wolpert

    Review by Nathan Seppa.

    By Science News

  2. No Small Matter: Science on the Nanoscale by Felice C. Frankel and George M. Whitesides

    Seemingly invisible objects such as viruses and molecules are imaged in rich detail through high-powered microscopes and photography. NO SMALL MATTER: SCIENCE ON THE NANOSCALE BY FELICE C. FRANKEL AND GEORGE M. WHITESIDES Belknap Press, 2009, 182 p., $35.

    By Science News
  3. Health & Medicine

    Smallpox — The Death of a Disease

    The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer, by D.A. Henderson.

    By Nathan Seppa

  4. Viruses, Plagues, & History: Past, Present, and Future by Michael B.A. Oldstone

    An immunobiologist describes how microbes have shaped history and may affect the future. Oxford University Press, 2009, 383 p., $17.95. VIRUSES, PLAGUES, & HISTORY: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE BY MICHAEL B.A. OLDSTONE

    By Science News

  5. Book Review: Breeding Bio Insecurity: How U.S. Biodefense Is Exporting Fear, Globalizing Risk, and Making Us All Less Secure by Lynn C. Klotz and Edward J. Sylvester

    Review by Rachel Zelkowitz.

    By Science News
  6. Health & Medicine

    Flu shots for moms-to-be benefit babies

    Study of about 4,000 pregnant women shows link between newborn health and whether mom got vaccinated

    By Nathan Seppa
  7. Health & Medicine

    Vaccine may head off genital cancer in women

    An experimental immunization can clear up premalignant growths caused by the human papillomavirus in some patients.

    By Nathan Seppa
  8. Health & Medicine

    Bacteria flourish in favorite ecosystems on the human body

    Study offers most comprehensive inventory yet of the human microbiome and a basis for understanding how those microbes affect health.

    By Laura Sanders

  9. Low-tech approach stifles high-risk Nipah virus

    Protecting palm-tree sap from bats may limit spread of deadly disease, a study in Bangladesh shows.

    By Nathan Seppa
  10. Earth

    Where humans go, pepper virus follows

    Plant pathogen could help track waters polluted with human waste.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  11. Health & Medicine

    Targeting microRNA knocks out hepatitis C

    Blocking a small molecule, a new drug reduces levels of the virus, chimp study shows.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  12. Health & Medicine

    H1N1 hits sickle cell kids hard

    Cases particularly acute in children with the chronic blood condition.

    By Nathan Seppa