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6,295 results for: Virus

  1. Health & Medicine

    Smallpox — The Death of a Disease

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

    By Nathan Seppa

  2. 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

  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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

  7. 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
  8. Earth

    Where humans go, pepper virus follows

    Plant pathogen could help track waters polluted with human waste.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  9. 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
  10. Health & Medicine

    H1N1 hits sickle cell kids hard

    Cases particularly acute in children with the chronic blood condition.

    By Nathan Seppa
  11. Life

    Model for powerful flu fighters from existing drugs

    Computer screening mines inventory of existing drugs to find possible new drugs that the H1N1 and H5N1 flu viruses just wouldn’t be able to resist.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  12. Life

    Virus makes plants lie to insects

    Infected squash plants smell delicious but taste terrible – perfect combination for tricking aphids into spreading disease

    By Susan Milius