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- 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.
- Life
Genes & Cells
Self-sufficient pancreatic cells, tingly spinal cells and vitamin D for gum disease in this week’s news.
- Earth
Marine microbes prove potent greenhouse gas emitters
Earth’s oceans emit an estimated 30 percent of the nitrous oxide, or N2O, entering the atmosphere. Yet the source of this potent greenhouse gas has puzzled scientists for years. Bacteria — long the leading candidate — can generate nitrous oxide, but the seas don’t seem to contain enough to account for all of the nitrous oxide that the marine world has been coughing up. Now researchers offer a better candidate.
- Health & Medicine
Don’t share that clarinet
Bacteria can linger on woodwind instruments, particularly those with reeds, for days, a new study finds.
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Book Review: A Planet of Viruses by Carl Zimmer
Review by Tina Hesman Saey.
- Health & Medicine
Gut microbes may foster heart disease
In breaking down a common dietary fat, helpful bacteria initiate production of an artery-hardening compound, mouse experiments suggest.
- Life
Genes & Cells
Traditional medicine helps give the slip to bacteria, plus insulin insensitivity and dental plaque in this week's news.
- Life
Antibiotics may make fighting flu harder
The drugs kill helpful bacteria that keep the immune system primed against viral infections.
- Life
Genes & Cells
Genes for butterfly wings and maintaining maleness, plus turtles meet their lizard relatives and more in this week’s news.
- Health & Medicine
Mineral quashes deadly bacterial poisons
Manganese supplement might someday help counter a virulent form of E. coli.
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