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6,244 results for: Virus

  1. Genetics

    Year in review: Breakthrough gene editor sparks ethics debate

    The gene editing system CRISPR has opened the door to new scientific advancements — and ethical concerns.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  2. Health & Medicine

    Rotavirus vaccine is proving its worth

    Rotavirus vaccination cuts childhood intestinal infection hospitalizations in half.

    By Meghan Rosen
  3. Science & Society

    No matter the language, disease risk is hard to communicate

    Reassuring messages about MERS might seem designed to stop panic. But in reality, people need to hear the truth, even if it’s uncertain.

    By Bethany Brookshire
  4. Animals

    Wasps may turn ladybugs into zombies with viral weapons

    Parasitic wasps may use a neurological virus to make ladybugs their minions, a study posits.

    By Helen Thompson
  5. Health & Medicine

    Hepatitis E vaccine shows strong coverage

    A large trial in China indicates that a vaccine can provide 87 percent protection against the hepatitis E virus, which infects 20 million people a year.

    By Nathan Seppa

  6. Tiny tweaks helped flu strains thwart 2014-2015 vaccine

    Changes to the flu strains circulating around the Northern Hemisphere explain why last year’s flu vaccine didn’t work so well.

    By Meghan Rosen
  7. Life

    Experimental herpes vaccine works in mice

    An experimental herpes vaccine works in animal tests by using an approach starkly different from that used in previous vaccine development.

    By Nathan Seppa
  8. Life

    When bacteria-killing viruses take over, it’s bad news for the gut

    A rise in some bacteria-killing viruses in the intestines may deplete good bacteria and trigger inflammatory bowel diseases.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  9. Life

    Ebola virus edits its own genetic material

    Both the Ebola and Marburg viruses edit their genetic material when infecting cells. The viruses may make proteins currently unknown to scientists.

    By Ashley Yeager
  10. Life

    Finches can pass H7N9 bird flu to chickens

    In laboratory experiments, society finches spread H7N9 into water when they drank, infecting chickens and quail that drank the same water.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  11. Microbes

    Frozen caribou feces offers look at virus evolution

    Genetic material extracted from caribou poop gives hints about how viruses evolve.

    By Ashley Yeager
  12. Genetics

    Readers question gene-drive engineered mosquitoes and their predators

    Readers discuss the effects of gene-drive engineered mosquitoes and muse on their science bucket list.

    By Science News Staff