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Diagnosis of STDs Could Be As Quick As Peeing On A Chip And Putting It In...
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Experimental "Body Reboot" Drug Begins Trial As Preemptive Preventer Of Diabetes
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Moveable Beasts: Tracking Winged Migrations To Predict Weather, Stop Disease,...
Tracking Bird Christian Ziegler "The animals are telling us things," said Martin Wikelski, hopping out of the cockpit of his Cessna. He had just spent a chilly January morning chasing blackbirds in...
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Scientists Create Sperm-Free Mosquitoes to Prevent Malaria
The Only Good Mosquito? PlaneMad Scientists hard at work at eradicating malaria have often focused on the malaria-carrying mosquito, creating solutions ranging from genetic modification to...
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Americans Suffering From Possibly-Imaginary Sensitivity to Wi-Fi Run for...
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The One-Cent Solution
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The Virus Station: A Field Lab for Finding a Deadly Disease
The Virus Station 01 WHO/Christopher Black A man who worked in a lead and gold mine in southwest Uganda died suddenly from a hemorrhagic fever. Concerned that it could be the beginning of an outbreak...
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The Laboratory That Infects Salad With Deadly Pathogens
Produce Flume A full production-scale fresh produce flume and processing system, installed in the IIT IFSH Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3) biocontainment facility, allows researchers and industry to study...
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Fun Times! Come Learn About the Next Deadly Outbreak
Wrath Goes Viral Swine Flu. SARS. Ebola. They're not just the makings of a great movie plot. Drop into Science & the City tonight to learn the science behind viral outbreaks. Sixty percent of...
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Adorable Beagle Diagnoses Deadly Infections By Sniffing You
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A Single Bout Of Exercise Can Make Your Flu Shot More Effective
Syringe Wikimedia Commons So, you've gotten yourself a flu shot. Good thinking, since this flu season is especially rough. A shot's not always going to save you--even the best batches are only about...
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Common Sweetener Could Help Treat Parkinson's Disease
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5 Gross But Cool Vintage Anatomy Drawings
Claude Mayor of Lutry Guilhelmus Fabricius Hildanus, Opera quae extant omnia (Complete Works). Frankfurt: J. Beyer, 1646. Before photography was developed, doctors could only depend on each other's...
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Lasers 3-D Print A Home For Bacteria
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Fruit Flies Boost STI Immunity Before Sex
Drosophila BbskiAmong the promiscuous common fruit fly, sexually-transmitted infections run rampant. Female fruit flies, however, have a special kind of defense to lower the potential cost of getting...
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Has The End Of The Banana Arrived?
Flickr/Ian RansleyTwo weeks ago, at a conference in South Africa, scientists met to discuss how to contain a deadly banana disease outbreak in nearby Mozambique, Africa. At fault was a fungus that...
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In Africa, Ebola Patients Need More Than Medicine
Liberia's Island Clinic Ebola Treatment Unit Morgana Wingard for USAID The dusty hills around Lima sprout concrete at all angles. There are many words here for the gray delineation of poverty-struck...
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In the age of Blu-Ray and Hulu, maybe DVDs are becoming less relevant. But researchers have just made a crazy invention with one: a device that simply and quickly detects…
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_ Click to launch the photo gallery_ This week we found out that fruit flies can get depressed--in at least one experiment, anyway--after they realize they cannot escape…
View ArticleFaroe Islands Wants To Sequence The Genes Of Every One Of Its Citizens
Welcome to the Faroe Islands, a beautiful rocky archipelago in the North Atlantic, a Danish territory located about halfway between Iceland and Scotland. It's a small and…
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