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- Health & Medicine
Ebola may travel on the wing
Fruit bats can carry the Ebola virus, suggesting that they may spread it in Africa.
- Health & Medicine
Dangerous History
The genome of the TB bacterium has small but significant pockets of diversity, giving scientists new targets for preventing and treating the disease.
- Health & Medicine
Milk Therapy
Breast milk has long been known to be the best food for babies, but compounds in breast milk promise to be a tonic for many adult ills as well.
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Engineering a Cure: Genetically modified cells fight cancer
By inserting a gene into normal immune cells isolated from melanoma patients, scientists have turned the cells into cancer fighters.
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Killer Findings: Scientists piece together 1918-flu virus
Two new studies shed light on the 1918-flu virus by wrapping up efforts to sequence its genome and reconstructing its genes into a living model.
- Humans
From the September 19, 1936, issue
A nebula photographed, thin films, and cancer as uncontrolled cell growth.
- Health & Medicine
Vaccines against Marburg and Ebola viruses advance
Two new vaccines protect against the lethal Ebola and Marburg viruses, tests in monkeys show.
- Humans
From the December 19 & 26, 1936, issues
CHRISTMAS HOLLY TREES HAVE THEIR FLOWERS TOO Despite the popularity of the familiar red holly berries for Christmas decorations, few of us are familiar with the rare beauty of the holly tree’s flower. The illustration on the front cover of this week’s Science News Letter is one of the superb enlargements in Walter E. Rogers’ […]
- Health & Medicine
Open Water, Open Mouths: Scuba divers face infection risks
A new study takes a stab at quantifying the risks that waterborne bacteria and viruses pose to scuba divers.
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Flu from horses is racing among dogs
A highly contagious influenza virus that has killed greyhounds and sickened other dogs may have first jumped to canines from a single infected horse.
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Gold-Metal Results: Compounds block immune proteins
Metals such as platinum and gold keep certain proteins from stimulating the body's immune response.
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Net Heads
With a new arsenal of mathematical approaches, neuroscientists are unraveling the surprisingly few steps messages take to traverse the vast networks of brain cells underlying thought and perception.
