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Tamiflu in Rivers Could Breed Drug-Resistant Flu - 1 month ago
Tamiflu has been found in Chinese rivers downstream of sewage treatment plants. That could lead to...
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Data-Mining Medical Records Could Predict Domestic Violence - 1 month ago
A computer model can predict when a patient is suffering from domestic abuse around two years...
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Videos of 1930s Surgeries on the Brain, Tonsils and Belly - 1 month ago
Watch surgeons from the 1930s drill into a skull, remove a pair of tonsils and deliver a baby. These...
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Gene Therapy Cures Color Blindness in Monkeys - 1 month ago
Gene therapy has given monkeys the ability to distinguish green and red. The stunning success is...
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Giant MRI's Magnetic Force Tops Large Hadron Collider's - 1 month ago
The world's most powerful MRI machine helps scientists peer into the brain with the aid of a 45-ton...
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With Bush Ban Gone, Stem Cell Research Will Proliferate - 8 months ago
Barack Obama reversed a Bush-era ban on embryonic-stem-cell research Monday morning — and stem cell...
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Human Clones May Be Genetically Viable - 9 months ago
Cloned human embryos, using eggs from in vitro fertilization, appear to develop normally and could...
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FDA OKs First Human Trials of Embryonic Stem Cells - 9 months ago
The day after Barack Obama's inauguration, the Food and Drug Administration approves the first...
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Cancer Stem Cells Might Not Be Supervillains After All - 11 months ago
The theory that a few cancer stem cells are responsible for tumor growth may not be as solid as...
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Tamiflu in Rivers Could Breed Drug-Resistant Flu - 1 month ago
Tamiflu has been found in Chinese rivers downstream of sewage treatment plants. That could lead to...
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Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why. - 2 months ago
Merck was in trouble. In 2002, the pharmaceutical giant was falling behind its rivals in sales. Even...
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Contact High: Lenses That Deliver Drugs - 3 months ago
A contact lens that can deliver drugs to the eye steadily for a month could make eye drops...
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Obama Clashes With Farm Industry Over Antibiotics - 3 months ago
The Obama administration is acting on years of warnings that the farm industry's use of antibiotics...
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Cancer Drug Delays Aging in Mice - 4 months ago
A drug approved for treating cancer also can extend the life of elderly mice. Though the drug is not...
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As Flu Spreads, Generic Drugmakers Wait for Call - 6 months ago
The World Health Organization says the swine flu is still heading toward pandemic status, but WHO...
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The Messy Future of Memory-Editing Drugs - 7 months ago
Wired.com interviews neuroethicist Anders Sandberg on the possible benefits and pitfalls of drugs...
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Anti-Smoking Drug Succeeds When Antidepressants Fail - 7 months ago
A drug commonly used to help smokers quit may also help fight depression. Chantix works on the brain...
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Popular Wakefulness Drug May Be Addictive - 7 months ago
A drug used to increase alertness and boost mental acuity may be addictive, according to a study...
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How the Smell of Rotten Eggs Could Lead to a New Viagra - 8 months ago
Hydrogen sulfide — known to you as "that rotten egg smell" — is naturally produced in human penis...
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Data-Mining Medical Records Could Predict Domestic Violence - 1 month ago
A computer model can predict when a patient is suffering from domestic abuse around two years...
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Videos of 1930s Surgeries on the Brain, Tonsils and Belly - 1 month ago
Watch surgeons from the 1930s drill into a skull, remove a pair of tonsils and deliver a baby. These...
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Giant MRI's Magnetic Force Tops Large Hadron Collider's - 1 month ago
The world's most powerful MRI machine helps scientists peer into the brain with the aid of a 45-ton...
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Gene Therapy Cures Color Blindness in Monkeys - 1 month ago
Gene therapy has given monkeys the ability to distinguish green and red. The stunning success is...
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Circuit-Tweaking Reverse Engineers a Gene Network - 2 months ago
By knocking out genes one by one, scientists have revealed the genetic network that cells use to...
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Genome Engineering Goes High Speed - 3 months ago
A new technique for writing genomes could drastically speed up production of industrial chemicals...
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Origin of Species: How a <em>T. Rex</em> Femur Sparked a Scientific Smackdown - 4 months ago
Sixty-eight million years ago, on a soggy marsh in what is now a desolate stretch of eastern...
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Disease Hunters Add Swine Flu Genome to Arsenal - 5 months ago
Scientists have sequenced the genome of the swine flu that's probably infected 100,000 Americans....
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Gamers Unravel the Secret Life of Protein - 6 months ago
As soon as Zoran Popović saw the hair, he knew he was looking at David Baker. It was unmistakable:...
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Molecular Frameworks, the Building Blocks of All Life - 7 months ago
Sure, the world is complicated, but not as complicated as you might think. It turns out that most...
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Science as Search: Sergey Brin to Fund Parkinson Study - 8 months ago
Google founder Sergey Brin brings his search strategy to Parkinson's disease, funding a database of...
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Dueling Q&A: Debating Designer Babies - 8 months ago
Experts weigh in on the pros and cons of selecting embryos for cosmetic traits prior to implantation...
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Q and A: Jack Horner Wants to Re-Create T. Rex From Chickens — What Could Possibly Go Wrong? - 8 months ago
Flip the right genetic switches in a chicken embryo and you just might hatch a baby dino....
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