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6,285 results for: Virus

  1. Health & Medicine

    Risk Factor: Throat cancer linked to virus spread by sex

    Cancer of the throat and tonsils can arise from infection with a sexually transmitted virus.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Health & Medicine

    Early Start: Fetuses generate immune response to vaccination

    A fetus can manufacture immune cells and antibodies in direct response to vaccine given to the mother during pregnancy.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Health & Medicine

    Phages break up plaques

    Phages, viruses that infect bacteria, dissolve plaques in the brains of mice with an Alzheimer's-like disease.

    By Brian Vastag
  4. Health & Medicine

    Beware the bats

    Fruit bats in Bangladesh regularly trigger small outbreaks of Nipah virus, a measleslike pathogen that causes brain inflammation and death.

    By Brian Vastag

  5. Breast Cancer Lead: Overactive gene is linked to disease

    A mutated gene that's overly active in breast cancer cells could offer a new target for cancer drugs.

    By Patrick Barry

  6. Crossing the Line: Technique could treat brain diseases

    With the help of a molecule from the rabies virus, scientists have for the first time selectively ferried a drug across the blood-brain barrier to treat a neurological disease in mice.

    By Patrick Barry
  7. Animals

    West Nile virus hits bird populations

    West Nile virus has hammered populations of five common North American birds.

    By Susan Milius
  8. Tech

    Cellular Smugglers: Laden nanoparticles hitch a ride on bacteria

    Molecular cargoes loaded onto nanoparticles can sneak into mammalian cells on the backs of bacteria.

    By Sarah Webb
  9. Tech

    Biowarfare: Engineered virus can invade bacterial film

    A genetically engineered virus not only kills bacteria but makes an enzyme that breaks up the biofilm in which the bacteria live.

    By Davide Castelvecchi
  10. Health & Medicine

    Spermicide Flip Side: Compound may promote papillomavirus infection

    The widely used spermicide nonoxynol-9 may boost the infectiousness of human papillomavirus, mouse tests show.

    By Nathan Seppa
  11. Health & Medicine

    Hepatitis B drug creates HIV resistance

    A hepatitis B drug spurs resistance to HIV drugs in people infected with both diseases.

    By Carolyn Barry
  12. Health & Medicine

    Tumor Suicide: Gene therapy makes cancer cells self-destruct

    Microscopic bubbles of fat that deliver a suicide gene to tumor cells show success in treating pancreatic cancer in mice.

    By Patrick Barry