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6,251 results for: Virus

  1. Health & Medicine

    Elderly benefit from high-dose flu shot

    High-dose vaccine may offer people age 65 and older improved protection against the flu.

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  2. Ecosystems

    Virus-blocking insects taking over Vietnamese island

    Field trial tests mosquitoes that may stop the spread of dengue infection.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Coffee reveals itself as an unlikely elixir

    Coffee is earning a reputation as a health tonic, reducing risk for a long list of ailments and even lowering death rates.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Second wave of bird flu ups pandemic worries

    The H7N9 avian influenza virus, which first appeared in 2013, is sweeping China with a second, larger wave of illness.

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  5. Life

    On the trail of a new virus

    Map of MERS infection finds microbe spread through hospital dialysis units.

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  6. Genetics

    Bacteria can be genetically tricked into self-destructing

    Manipulating microbes’ defenses could lead to targeted antibiotics.

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  7. Microbes

    The vast virome

    When it comes to the microbiome, bacteria get all the press. But virologists are starting to realize that their subjects also do a lot more than make people sick.

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  8. Life

    Big study raises worries about bees trading diseases

    Pathogens may jump from commercial colonies to the wild.

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  9. Genetics

    Gene therapy with electrical pulses spurs nerve growth

    Deaf guinea pigs' hearing improves with electrical pulses from a hearing implant are combined with gene therapy, a new study shows.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    H7N9 flu makes a comeback

    Scientists warn that the risk that the illness could spread remains.

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  11. Science & Society

    12 reasons research goes wrong

    Barriers to research replication are based largely in a scientific culture that pits researchers against each other in competition for scarce resources. Here are a few that skew results.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    HIV returns in girl once considered cured of the infection

    An infant girl, once thought to be cured of HIV, now has detectable levels of the virus.

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