6,165 results
- Health & Medicine
Experimental vaccines protect children from hand, foot and mouth disease
Shots prevented cases resulting from enterovirus 71.
- Health & Medicine
Doctors enlisted to turn the tide on antibiotic resistance
Antibiotic stewardship requires education, diligence, and changes in prescribing. At some hospitals, it’s beginning to halt a dangerous trend.
- Genetics
Top genomes of 2013
Scientists continue to decode the genetic blueprints of the planet’s myriad flora and fauna.
- Health & Medicine
Urine is not sterile, and neither is the rest of you
Despite what the Internet says, urine does contain bacteria, a new study finds. And so does your brain, the womb, and pretty much everywhere else.
- Life
Gene therapy treats children with rare diseases
Six kids are healthy, up to three years after treatment.
- Animals
Compared with rodents, bat species carry more viruses
Viruses that can jump from animals to people may find the flying mammals a fine place to lurk.
- Health & Medicine
Inactivated virus shows promise against HIV
Some patients getting an experimental vaccine therapy developed immunity.
- Microbes
Microbes can redeem themselves to fight disease
With some genetic engineering, bacteria can morph from bad to good and help attack invading cancer cells.
- Science & Society
HeLa genome offers clues to cells’ cancerous nature
The genetic sequence is published along with an agreement to protect the privacy of the family of the cells’ provider, Henrietta Lacks.
- Health & Medicine
Bird flu infects three in China
The H7N9 influenza virus has sickened three people, killing two, in first known human infections.
- Health & Medicine
Hepatitis C drug goes after patients’ RNA
An experimental medicine that targets a type of RNA in the liver leads to reduced virus levels in patients.
- Health & Medicine
Bee venom component might offer HIV protection
A toxin delivered by nanoparticles stops the virus in a lab study.
