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6,249 results for: Virus

  1. Health & Medicine

    Hepatitis B drug creates HIV resistance

    A hepatitis B drug spurs resistance to HIV drugs in people infected with both diseases.

    By Carolyn Barry
  2. Computing

    Squashing Worms

    Defeating computer worms that mutate will take some smart defense strategies.

    By Julie Rehmeyer

  3. Oceans reveal secrets of viruses

    Scientists have completed the first survey of virus DNA in oceans around the world.

    By Julie Rehmeyer
  4. Math

    Tied Up in Knots

    Physicists have shown that tumbled strings will form surprisingly complex knots, helping explain how knots spontaneously form in nature.

    By Davide Castelvecchi
  5. Health & Medicine

    Tumor Suicide: Gene therapy makes cancer cells self-destruct

    Microscopic bubbles of fat that deliver a suicide gene to tumor cells show success in treating pancreatic cancer in mice.

    By Patrick Barry
  6. Health & Medicine

    Nanomagnets tackle cancer

    Under the influence of an external magnetic field, tiny magnets act as highly localized space heaters, warming to temperatures that kill adjacent cancer cells.

    By Janet Raloff
  7. Health & Medicine

    Virus Stopper: Herpes drug dampens HIV infection

    An antiviral drug commonly taken for genital herpes seems to suppress HIV in people harboring both pathogens.

    By Nathan Seppa
  8. Health & Medicine

    Bug versus Bug: Insect virus makes a viable flu vaccine

    A new influenza vaccine churned out by caterpillar cells infected with a genetically engineered virus effectively prevents the flu.

    By Brian Vastag
  9. Health & Medicine

    Beware the bats

    Fruit bats in Bangladesh regularly trigger small outbreaks of Nipah virus, a measleslike pathogen that causes brain inflammation and death.

    By Brian Vastag
  10. Health & Medicine

    Lonely white cells

    In chronically lonely people, white blood cells show abnormal gene activity that may affect health through immune responses.

    By Brian Vastag
  11. Health & Medicine

    Spermicide Flip Side: Compound may promote papillomavirus infection

    The widely used spermicide nonoxynol-9 may boost the infectiousness of human papillomavirus, mouse tests show.

    By Nathan Seppa
  12. Health & Medicine

    Drug-Resistant Flu Detected: Japanese strains appear transmissible

    For the first time, researchers report drug resistance in type B influenza virus and say the drug-resistant strain may jump from person to person.

    By Brian Vastag
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