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6,251 results for: Virus

  1. Tech

    A turkey’s wattle inspires a biosensor’s design

    A group of scientists from the University of California, Berkeley have developed a color-changing biosensor inspired by a turkey’s wattle.

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  2. Life

    A little acid or a tight squeeze can turn a cell stemlike

    Stresses send mouse cells into primordial state capable of making any tissue.

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  3. Life

    Ebola may go airborne

    Infected pigs can transmit virus to primates without contact, a new study finds.

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  4. Life

    Unusual virus may tie snakes in knots

    Captive snakes with a fatal disease harbor viruses never before seen in reptiles.

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  5. SN Online

    GENES & CELLS See a roundup of some of the latest discoveries about China’s H7N9 virus in “ New bird flu claims more victims .” ENVIRONMENT Lake Erie is loaded with tiny pieces of plastic containing toxic pollutants. Read “Puny plastic particles mar Lake Erie’s waters.” HUMANS Male attractiveness relies on a combination of body […]

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  6. Life

    Killer cells trained on leukemia may protect some people

    Immune system seems to remember cancer in people who've never had it, a new study suggests.

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  7. Life

    New swine flu virus could infect people

    Strains found in Korean pigs contain gene mutations that make them potentially transmissible to humans.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Dose of Reality

    HPV is epidemic, which is odd since it is largely preventable.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses

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  10. Science & Society

    Top 25 stories of 2013, from microbes to meteorites

    This year, careful readers may have noticed a steady accumulation of revelations about the bacterial communities that call the human body home.

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  11. Life

    Controversial bird flu papers fly

    But research freeze holds.

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  12. Microbes

    Me and my microbiome

    Tina Hesman Saey tries out new services offering clients a peek at their own bacteria.

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