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6,244 results for: Virus

  1. 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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  2. Health & Medicine

    Diversity of human skin bacteria revealed

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

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Health & Medicine

    Flu shot in pregnancy protects newborns

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

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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. Health & Medicine

    Stopping rotavirus before it hits

    A vaccine against rotavirus shows potent protection against the diarrhea-causing pathogen in its first year of widespread use.

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  10. Old viruses have new tricks

    Invading viruses can trick a cell into turning off its defense mechanisms.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Better Than Pap: Virus test detects cervical cancer

    A new test for human papillomavirus (HPV) detects cervical cancer more reliably than traditional Pap smears.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Good day care grime

    A study of 952 children in Manchester, England, suggests that children going to day care starting at age 6 months could be less likely to develop asthma later.

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