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6,251 results for: Virus
- Health & Medicine
HIV vaccine trial stopped
Shots-plus-booster strategy deemed ineffective in preventing infection.
- Life
Invasive mite worsens honeybee viruses
Once-obscure deformed wing virus swept to prominence in honeybee colonies in Hawaiian islands as invasive pest arrived.
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- Life
Year in Review: Your body is mostly microbes
Microbiome results argue for new view of animals as superorganisms.
- Health & Medicine
Disrupted brain chatter produces schizophrenia-like symptoms in mice
By quieting part of the thalamus, researchers create rodents with cognitive deficits that mirror those in people with the condition.
- Health & Medicine
Novel drug candidates fight flu in mice
The compounds halt even drug-resistant strains of the virus in lab studies
- Life
Gene variant makes flu particularly dangerous
People with one form of IFITM3 are more likely to develop pneumonia.
- Neuroscience
Research prods brain wiring underlying compulsive behavior
Complementary studies, focusing on repetitive grooming in mice, offer potential for new treatment strategies in humans.
- Life
Foot fungi a thriving, diverse community
A skin census finds that toes and heels have the most fungal types.
- Space
Belief in multiverse requires exceptional vision
If you can’t see it, it doesn’t exist. That’s an old philosophy, one that many scientists swallowed whole. But as Ziva David of NCIS would say, it’s total salami. After all, you can’t see bacteria and viruses, but they can still kill you. Yet some scientists still invoke that philosophy to deny the scientific status […]
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No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses by Peter Piot
A microbiologist tells tales of his adventures in Africa battling infectious diseases from Ebola to AIDS. W.W. Norton & Co., 2012, 304 p., $28.95
- Humans
Of Mice and Man
The lab mouse is being remodeled to better mimic how humans respond to disease.
