There’s a little known, dirty story about the International Space Station (ISS): It’s filled with bacteria and fungi. A new study has found compelling evidence…
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Anti-HIV drugs have extended life for millions of people, but they have never eliminated the virus from anyone. That’s because HIV integrates its genetic material…
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Science maintains a website with free links to all of our Ebola coverage. I covered the epidemic with Martin Enserink, Kai Kupferschmidt, and Gretchen Vogel.
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Belly button gel based on a mouthwash ingredient could save thousands of newborns One Friday night in the summer of 2012, Pauline Williams, glass…
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Human trials of more than 100 different AIDS vaccines have taken place since researchers proved in 1984 that HIV caused the disease. Robert Gallo, whose…
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Researchers stunned the world in July when they announced success with a trial of an Ebola vaccine in Guinea. But the unusual design of…
Comments closedA new study that supercharges influenza viruses used to make vaccines questions a U.S. government moratorium on just such research. Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a virologist…
Comments closedAn 18-year-old woman in France who became infected with HIV as a baby went off antiretroviral drugs 12 years ago and the virus has yet…
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After what Shane Ryan calls “a silly, stupid weekend” in late April, he joined the many other men in San Francisco, California, who line up…
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