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  6. For geneticists, interference becomes an asset

    A new method of disrupting genes, called RNA interference, works in mouse cells.

    By John Travis
  7. Health & Medicine

    Nerve cells of ALS patients harbor virus

    Fragments of viral genetic material show up with unusually high frequency in nerve tissue of patients with ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, suggesting a link between the virus and this lethal illness.

    By Nathan Seppa
  8. Health & Medicine

    Survivors’ Benefit?

    Smallpox outbreaks throughout history may have endowed some people with genetic mutations that make them resistant to the AIDS virus.

    By John Travis
  9. Health & Medicine

    New Compounds Inhibit HIV in Lab

    Two new compounds uncovered by pharmaceutical scientists block integrase, an enzyme essential to the replication cycle of the virus that causes AIDS.

    By Nathan Seppa
  10. Health & Medicine

    NO News

    Preliminary research suggests that inhaled nitric oxide may offer a much-needed treatment for patients suffering from complications of sickle cell disease.

    By Damaris Christensen

  11. Drugs order bacteria to commit suicide

    Seeking to explain how antibiotics work, scientists find a protein that commands bacteria to kill themselves.

    By John Travis
  12. Health & Medicine

    HIV may date back to the 1930s

    Genetic analysis of the AIDS virus suggests it first infected humans in the first third of the 20th century.

    By Damaris Christensen