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6,287 results for: Virus

  1. Health & Medicine

    Survivors’ Benefit?

    Smallpox outbreaks throughout history may have endowed some people with genetic mutations that make them resistant to the AIDS virus.

    By John Travis
  2. Health & Medicine

    Hear, Hear

    A 14-year study of twin babies shows definitively for the first time that there's a link between middle ear infections and heredity.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Health & Medicine

    Taking a Break

    Can interrupting their treatment benefit HIV-infected people?

    By Damaris Christensen

  4. The Meaning of Life

    Computers are unscrambling genomes to reveal the secrets in DNA codes.

    By Tina Hesman Saey

  5. Placental Puzzle

    Do captured viral genes make human pregnancies possible?

    By John Travis
  6. Health & Medicine

    Endgame for Epilepsy?

    Researchers look toward a cure.

    By Damaris Christensen

  7. Pass the Genes, Please

    Gene swapping muddles the history of microbes.

    By John Travis
  8. Health & Medicine

    Infectious Notion

    Lessons from gene therapy promote viruses as cancer fighters.

    By Ruth Bennett

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

    Scientists lobby for a chimpanzee genome project.

    By John Travis

  10. Do Antibodies Pack a Deadly Punch?

    These immune molecules may directly kill, not just tag, microbes.

    By John Travis
  11. Materials Science

    One-Upping Nature’s Materials

    Striving for designer substances that build themselves from individual molecules.

    By Jessica Gorman
  12. Materials Science

    Making Stuff Last

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

    By Jessica Gorman