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6,244 results for: Virus

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

    Scientists lobby for a chimpanzee genome project.

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  2. 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.

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  3. Life

    All the World’s a Phage

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

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  4. 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.

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  5. Materials Science

    One-Upping Nature’s Materials

    Striving for designer substances that build themselves from individual molecules.

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  6. 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, […]

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  7. 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.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Infectious Notion

    Lessons from gene therapy promote viruses as cancer fighters.

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  9. Materials Science

    Making Stuff Last

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

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  10. 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.

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  11. Memorable Shot: Smallpox vaccine has lasting effect

    People vaccinated against smallpox decades ago may retain significant immunity to the virus that causes the disease.

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  12. Is that salamander virus flying?

    Scientists searching for the carrier of the iridovirus causing a salamander disease have dismissed frogs and fish, but not birds.

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