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6,244 results for: Virus

  1. Materials Science

    Crystal Clear: Liquid crystal sensor plays nature’s game

    By fixing the components of a cell membrane to a liquid crystal, researchers devised a sensitive and high-speed sensor for detecting chemical and biowarfare agents.

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  2. Materials Science

    Crystal Clear: Liquid crystal sensor plays nature’s game

    By fixing the components of a cell membrane to a liquid crystal, researchers devised a sensitive and high-speed sensor for detecting chemical and biowarfare agents.

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  3. Beyond Clots: Platelets in blood may guide immune response

    Platelets, best known for their ability to create blood clots in wounds, may also have a role in the immune system.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    HIV in breast milk can be drug resistant

    HIV-positive women who receive the drug nevirapine during pregnancy often have HIV that is resistant to the drug in their breast milk after they give birth.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Designer RNA stalls hepatitis in mice

    Using strips of synthetic RNA that interfere with normal gene action, scientists working with mice have stopped the progression of hepatitis.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    DNA vaccine for measles shows promise

    A measles vaccine consisting of just a couple of DNA strands proves effective in monkeys, possibly presenting an alternative or complementary vaccine for the standard immunization now used worldwide.

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  7. Humans

    Science News of the Year 2003

    A review of important scientific achievements reported in Science News during the year 2003.

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  8. Faulty Memory: Long-term immunity isn’t always beneficial

    Quickly losing immune-system defenses against some viruses may protect humans from far nastier bugs, a mathematical model suggests.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Indian encephalitis is traced to measles

    An outbreak of fatal encephalitis in India appears to have been caused by a strange form of rashless measles in a majority of the sick children tested.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    From rabies virus to anti-HIV vaccine

    Researchers working with mice are trying to fashion an HIV vaccine by using a weakened rabies virus to bring an HIV glycoprotein to the attention of the immune system.

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  11. Humans

    Science News of the Year 2004

    A review of important scientific achievements reported in Science News during the year 2004.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Virus Stopper: Vaccine could prevent most cervical cancers

    A vaccine fashioned from a protein found on human papillomavirus-16 protects women from long-term viral infections that can lead to cervical cancer.

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