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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.
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Human, Mouse, Rat . . . What’s Next?
Scientists lobby for a chimpanzee genome project.
By John Travis - 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 - 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 - Life
All the World’s a Phage
There are an amazing number of bacteriophages—viruses that kill bacteria—in the world.
By John Travis - 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 - Materials Science
One-Upping Nature’s Materials
Striving for designer substances that build themselves from individual molecules.
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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 - 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.
- Health & Medicine
Infectious Notion
Lessons from gene therapy promote viruses as cancer fighters.
By Ruth Bennett - 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 - Materials Science
Making Stuff Last
Chemistry and materials science step up to preserve history, old and new.