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  1. Chemistry

    Nanoparticles in foods raise safety questions

    As scientists cook up ways to improve palatability and even make foods healthier, some are considering the potential health risks of tiny additives.

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  2. Life

    Common lung infection suffocates with single protein

    A Respiratory Syncytial Virus, or RSV, protein creates clumps of dead, bloblike lung cells.

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  3. Neuroscience

    The molecular path of best resilience

    Many studies focus on susceptibility to stress and how it triggers depression. But a new study highlights a protein important in resilience, showing that resisting stress takes work, too.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Hepatitis C treatment appears extremely effective

    A mix of four medications has provided the most effective way to date to counter the hepatitis C virus in humans.

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  5. Microbes

    Vaccines and gut microbes join forces to fight flu

    Losing gut microbes weakens the protective ability of the flu vaccine in mice.

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  6. Tech

    New microscope gives clear view inside cells

    By splitting beams of light, a new microscopy technique can capture activity inside a cell.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Human tests of experimental Ebola vaccine set to start

    NIH and NIAID have announced that human tests of an experimental vaccine against Ebola virus will begin in early September.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Test Ebola treatments to be rushed to West Africa

    The World Health Organization has announced that it will use test treatments in West Africa starting this fall.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    E-cigarettes proving to be a danger to teens

    E-cigarettes have surpassed cigarettes as the most commonly used tobacco product among teenagers. Medical researchers are sounding the alarm.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Six ways to beat chronic stress

    Counseling, mindfulness training and purposeful social contact may counteract the effects of chronic stress.

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  11. Science & Society

    Anti-leukemia vaccine reported hope of future

    Fifty years ago, Science News Letter reported on the promise of a vaccine to prevent leukemia. No preventive vaccine has come to pass, but leukemia vaccines as treatments has yielded promising results.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    More than 1 million Ebola cases may hit West Africa by January

    New projections of the outbreak suggest that without drastic improvements, weekly cases could increase from hundreds to thousands.

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