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6,244 results for: Virus

  1. Health & Medicine

    First dengue vaccine trial disappoints

    The shots protect against three of the four viral subtypes, failing to deliver full protection, a study in Thailand shows.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Life

    Controversial flu research published

    One of two papers detailing airborne H5N1 experiments is released.

    By Tina Hesman Saey

  3. Designer Flu

    How scientists made a killer virus airborne — and who should know.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  4. Life

    View to a cell

    In 2013, Science News published a photo essay highlighting advances in microscopy that illuminate life within us, work that has now earned three researchers the 2014 Nobel Prize in chemistry.

    By Rachel Ehrenberg
  5. Psychology

    Light found in cocaine addiction tunnel

    Using lasers, scientists target a sluggish set of neurons in rats to ease drug compulsion.

    By Puneet Kollipara

  6. BOOK REVIEW: Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy

    Review by Alexandra Witze.

    By Science News
  7. Neuroscience

    Hallucinations

    by Oliver Sacks.

    By Allison Bohac
  8. Genetics

    Genetic mutations may explain a brain cancer’s tenacity

    DNA damage may transform adult cells in glioblastoma, making the malignancy harder to kill.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  9. Neuroscience

    Nonstick trick in the brain

    Getting drugs into the brain has proved to be a nanoscale puzzle: Anything bigger than 64 nanometers — about the size of a small virus — gets stuck in the space between brain cells once it gets through the blood-brain barrier. Justin Hanes of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and colleagues got around this rule by coating particles destined for brain cells in a dense layer of a polymer called polyethylene glycol.

    By Sarah Zielinski

  10. Evolving E. coli

    25-year experiment sees real-time natural selection.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  11. Health & Medicine

    Updated Pap smear detects ovarian, uterine cancers

    Adding a genetic analysis to the procedure reveals mutations specific to the two malignancies.

    By Nathan Seppa
  12. Health & Medicine

    19th International AIDS Conference

    Highlights from the AIDS meeting, July 22-27, Washington, D.C.

    By Science News