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2,449 results for: mutations

  1. Health & Medicine

    Baby may be cured of HIV

    Only viral traces remain after prompt treatment of newborn, suggesting no working virus is left in the girl’s body.

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  2. Animals

    In the Eye of the Tiger

    Global spread of Asian tiger mosquito could fuel outbreaks of tropical disease in temperate regions.

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  3. Life

    Controversial bird flu papers fly

    But research freeze holds.

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  4. Humans

    Greed may breed financial fitness, but evolution allows unselfishness to survive

    If greed is good, as Gordon Gekko proclaimed in the 1987 movie Wall Street, then economics ought to be a superlative science. After all, at the core of economic theory sits a greedy idealization of human nature known as Homo economicus. It’s a fictitious species that represents the individual economic agent, motivated by selfishness. H. […]

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  5. Letters

    Redesigning flu mortality In “Designer flu” (SN: 6/2/12, p. 20), researcher Michael Osterholmis quoted as saying that even if the actual kill rate of H5N1 is 20 times lower than the current estimate of 59 percent, H5N1 would still have a mortality rate that “far exceeds” that of the 1918 flu. Wikipedia gives a 1918 […]

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Experimental malaria drug may be a hot prospect

    A synthetic compound attacks the parasite at three stages of infection, early tests show.

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  7. Genetics

    Rare disease sets mom’s research agenda

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  8. Neuroscience

    Hurt Blocker

    The next big pain drug may soothe sensory firestorms without side effects.

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  9. Life

    Pressure keeps cancer in check

    In lab experiments, physically confining malignant cells prevents runaway growth.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    2013 American Association for Cancer Research meeting

    Highlights from the annual AACR meeting include ovulation’s impact on cancer risk and an experimental drug’s promising performance against leukemia.

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  11. Life

    Controversial flu research published

    One of two papers detailing airborne H5N1 experiments is released.

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  12. Life

    Giant squid population is one big happy species

    Elusive deep ocean dwellers have low genetic diversity despite living around the globe.

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