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6,260 results for: Virus

  1. Humans

    Seeking genetic fate

    Personal genomics companies offer forecasts of disease risk, but the science behind the packaging is still evolving.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Body & Brain: Science news of the year, 2008

    Science News writers and editors looked back at the past year's stories and selected a handful as the year's most interesting and important in Body & Brain. Follow hotlinks to the full, original stories.

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  3. Animals

    Peril of play

    A new study shows that playful 2-year-old chimpanzees may be particularly vulnerable to infectious diseases — some caught from humans.

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  4. Humans

    From the April 2, 1938, issue

    The science of tall tales, a fluorine-spouting volcano under ice, and viruses show signs of life.

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  5. Life

    HIV after DARC

    A gene variant prevalent in people of African descent increases the risk of HIV infection but also helps slow disease progression.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Diversity of human skin bacteria revealed

    First large-scale inventory of microbes charts types, locales of bacteria.

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  7. Animals

    People bring both risk and reward to chimps

    Tolerating human researchers and ecotourists brought a group of chimpanzees a higher risk of catching human diseases but a lower chance of attacks from poachers.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    HIV variant might help vaccine search

    Scientists have discovered an unusual HIV protein in a Kenyan woman that makes the virus vulnerable to antibodies.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Flu shot in pregnancy protects newborns

    Mothers-to-be impart antibodies to offspring that pay dividends later

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  10. Gene therapy tool would target free radicals

    New method would make the most of the balance between the good and bad of free radicals, offering a potential treatment for cardiovascular diseases.

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  11. Math

    Strategy to stop a pandemic

    A limited supply of vaccine shots, if targeted well, could stop the spread of disease.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Earlier HIV treatment can save more lives

    Moving up the starting point for HIV treatment leads to improved survival rates.

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