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6,261 results for: Virus

  1. BOOK REVIEW: The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It by Ricki Lewis

    Review by Alexandra Witze.

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  2. Life

    Cats engineered for disease resistance

    Genetically modified felines created in an effort to fight feline immunodeficiency virus.

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  3. Humans

    Afghanistan on 240 incidents a week

    A computer simulation forecasts insurgent activity by analyzing U.S. military logs released on WikiLeaks.

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  4. Life

    Genes & Cells

    Microscopic murderers caught dealing poison, fighting aging with hibernation and more in this week's news.

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  5. Humans

    Science denial in the 21st century

    MADISON, Wis. — The arc of science has faced roadblocks for centuries, but the pattern of denying the weight of evidence has taken on new virulence recently. Highly motivated people openly cast doubt on well-established evidence — the theory of evolution, the human effects on climate change, the value of vaccines and other findings that […]

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  6. Math

    Varying efficacy of HIV drug cocktails explained

    Steepness of slope in dose-response curve tips off researchers to importance of timing in virus’s life cycle.

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  7. Genetics

    Factory of Life

    Synthetic biologists reinvent nature with parts, circuits.

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  8. Animals

    Mosquitoes Remade

    Scientists reinvent agents of illness to become allies in fight against disease.

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  9. Humans

    Researchers, journals asked to censor data

    Scientists undertake research to advance knowledge. Normally, one aspect of that advancement is to find as broad an audience for the newly acquired data as possible. But what happens if medically important data could be put to ruthless purposes? That question underlies the ruckus developing over two new bird flu papers.

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  10. Life

    Genes & Cells

    Caterpillars brainwashed by virus, bacteria break DNA and more in this week’s news.

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  11. Life

    Genes may explain who gets sick from flu

    People who stay well even after being exposed to the flu have a strong immune reaction to the virus, but in exactly the opposite way as those who get sick.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the HIV Medicine Association

    The mystery of HIV elite controllers, a vaccine against C. difficile, blood transfusion and infection, and contaminated public surfaces.

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