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  1. Moms and pups sniff out immune genes

    Genes involved in the immune system also create individualized body odors that allow parents and offspring to recognize each other.

    By John Travis
  2. Health & Medicine

    Old polio vaccine free of HIV, SIV

    Three laboratories analyzing remaining samples of polio vaccine used in the late 1950s find that none contains any human or simian immunodeficiency virus, or chimpanzee DNA—making polio vaccine unlikely to be the cause of the initial HIV outbreak in central Africa.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Health & Medicine

    Viruses depend on shocking proteins

    To replicate within a cell, a bird virus must force the cell to make certain proteins.

    By John Travis

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

    Scientists lobby for a chimpanzee genome project.

    By John Travis
  5. Health & Medicine

    HIV outwits immune system, again

    The AIDS virus uses immune system proteins to hitch rides on the antibody factories known as B cells, possibly helping it find potential host cells.

    By John Travis
  6. Health & Medicine

    AIDS Vaccine Tests Well in Monkeys

    An experimental AIDS vaccine bolstered with two immune proteins protects rhesus monkeys from the disease even when they are exposed to a combination of simian and human immunodeficiency virus.

    By Nathan Seppa