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6,278 results for: Virus
- Life
Microbe’s survival manual
Researchers have uncovered how D. radiodurans can withstand extreme radiation.
- Health & Medicine
When body meets H1N1 flu
Two studies map interactions between virus and human cells; one study reveals natural flu fighters.
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Worming Your Way to Better Health
To battle autoimmune disease and allergy, scientists tune in to the tricks of parasites.
- Health & Medicine
Targeting microRNA knocks out hepatitis C
Blocking a small molecule, a new drug reduces levels of the virus, chimp study shows.
- Health & Medicine
Stem cells from blood a ‘huge’ milestone
New technique promises to be easier, cheaper and faster than other harvesting methods.
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Science Past from the issue of April 9, 1960
CALIFORNIA ZOO APES BECOME “MEDICAL FIRSTS” — Noell, Scoop and Tria, three apes that live in the San Diego zoo, have made medical history. They “came down” with chicken pox while in their zoo cages during a period last summer when there was a high incidence of that disease among children in San Diego County. […]
- Life
Gene therapy for depression
Researchers were able to reduce pathological behaviors in mice by delivering genetic material to a particular brain region.
- Health & Medicine
Origins of the swine flu virus
Researchers use evolutionary history to trace the early days of the pandemic.
- Physics
A giant proposal for a new type of molecule
Atoms linked across vast distances, can point in two directions at once
- Life
Model for powerful flu fighters from existing drugs
Computer screening mines inventory of existing drugs to find possible new drugs that the H1N1 and H5N1 flu viruses just wouldn’t be able to resist.
- Health & Medicine
The Power of D
Sunshine vitamin’s potential health benefits stir up, split scientists.
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Science Future for March 13, 2010
March 19 Hubble 3D, an IMAX film about the telescope’s history and highlights, premiers nationwide. See www.imax.com/hubble March 21–25 The American Chemical Society holds its spring meeting in San Francisco. See www.acs.org April 18–20 Influenza experts meet in Atlanta to discuss the latest findings on the H1N1 virus and their implications. See web.mac.com/tcassin/iWeb/IPIRC
