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Rachael Rettner • May 29, 2009
Scientists have found that weight-loss surgery has a dramatic effect on type 2 diabetes and can even eliminate symptoms. Now, researchers are attempting to find out what is behind this diabetes “cure” and are even looking for alternative ways to mimic the surgery’s results.
Rachael Rettner • May 18, 2009
Studying the early stages of tuberculosis infection could help scientists figure out new ways to tackle the disease.
Robert Goodier • May 11, 2009
Pigs cough up a mish-mashed flu virus, something scientists saw coming for years.
Rachael Rettner • May 5, 2009
Could increasing global temperatures cause this tropical disease to spread?
Rachael Rettner • April 20, 2009
Scientists are researching ways to use a “gene knockout” technique known as RNA interference to help fight HIV.
Erik Ortlip • March 10, 2009
A microscopic arms race may lead to a new cost effective malaria treatment.
Lindsey Konkel • March 8, 2009
A recent Ebola Reston outbreak among pigs in the Philippines is cause for concern among some scientists.
Robert Goodier • January 9, 2009
In Latin America, little-known infections are as harmful as malaria or HIV, but their treatment is cheap.
Rachael Rettner • December 31, 2008
A new study finds that gut microbes may help protect against the onset of type 1 diabetes.
Shelley DuBois • December 9, 2008
Nestled in two trapezoids on the second tier of the food pyramid, dairy and red meat are often lauded as sources of calcium and protein but linked to cancer and […]
Robert Goodier • December 2, 2008
Biofilms. They’re like Frankenstein’s monster in microscopic form. They are living, heaving, powerful patchworks of microscopic creatures that have learned to seize the advantage of numbers. When individual, free-wheeling microbes […]
Allison Bond • November 26, 2008
There are two kinds of people: those who think that physics’ biggest experiment, the Large Hadron Collider, is a waste of money, and those who don’t. OK, that might be […]
Lynne Peeples • November 21, 2008
Google’s cleverness seems to know no limits. Evidence of this was last month’s “Goggles” add-on for Gmail that forces the intoxicated emailer to answer five math questions correctly–in less than […]
Carina Storrs • November 14, 2008
Geneticists hope their stem cell research will find new drugs against this debilitating disease.
Katherine Tweed • October 10, 2008
Researchers get aggressive with drug-resistant strains of TB and see promising results.