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  1. Tech

    Special Delivery: Metallic nanorods shuttle genes

    A new gene therapy technique relies on nanorods made of gold and nickel to deliver genes to cells in the body.

    By Alexandra Goho

  2. Human, Mouse, Rat . . . What’s Next?

    Scientists lobby for a chimpanzee genome project.

    By John Travis
  3. Health & Medicine

    Zealous Adherence: Erratic HIV therapy hasn’t fueled resistance

    Among people infected with HIV, those who don't consistently take their antiretroviral drugs as prescribed are no more likely to develop drug-resistant HIV than are patients who adhere to their treatment schedule.

    By Ben Harder
  4. Health & Medicine

    Protective virus ties up HIV docking sites

    A harmless virus that seems to keep HIV infections from progressing to AIDS appears to do so by occupying key molecular receptors on immune cells.

    By Nathan Seppa
  5. Life

    All the World’s a Phage

    There are an amazing number of bacteriophages—viruses that kill bacteria—in the world.

    By John Travis
  6. Health & Medicine

    Gene therapy thwarts hepatitis C in mice

    Gene therapy that induces infected liver cells to self-destruct slows hepatitis C dramatically in mice.

    By Nathan Seppa
  7. Materials Science

    One-Upping Nature’s Materials

    Striving for designer substances that build themselves from individual molecules.

    By Jessica Gorman

  8. 19309

    This article on the Ebola virus’ deadly glycoprotein was frightening enough, but even more terrifying to me was the fact that the researchers had genetically engineered a cold virus, one of the most easily transmitted and successful viruses on the planet, to carry the Ebola glycoprotein. I hope that modified virus never escapes the laboratory, […]

    By Science News
  9. Tech

    Snappy DNA: Long strand folds into octahedron

    By harnessing the self-assembling properties of DNA, researchers coerced a single strand of the genetic material to assume the shape of an octahedron.

    By Alexandra Goho
  10. Health & Medicine

    Infectious Notion

    Lessons from gene therapy promote viruses as cancer fighters.

    By Ruth Bennett
  11. Health & Medicine

    Select immune cells help marrow grafts

    By excising certain immune cells from donor bone marrow, physicians have devised a new way of performing marrow transplants.

    By Ben Harder
  12. Materials Science

    Making Stuff Last

    Chemistry and materials science step up to preserve history, old and new.

    By Jessica Gorman