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Lindsey Konkel • November 12, 2009
Pumping iron may be safe after breast cancer surgery, but doctors urge caution.
Rachael Rettner • October 28, 2009
Newly discovered compounds can kill tuberculosis bacteria while it is in its dormant state.
Shelley DuBois • October 19, 2009
A parasite researcher from NYU is hoping to tackle African sleeping sickness in Keyna by creating genetically enhanced cows that cannot catch or transmit the disease
Robert Goodier • October 5, 2009
History's lessons on the resurgence of a disease.
Valerie Ross • October 4, 2009
Smoking bans reduce heart attacks by over a third.
Alyson Kenward • September 24, 2009
New virus sculptures explore the public perception of scientific images.
Rachael Rettner • September 2, 2009
Using ferrets to predict the virus's virulence.
Allison Bond • August 17, 2009
A white blood cell known as Th-17 might play a pivotal role in autoimmune diseases from psoriasis to rheumatoid arthritis.
Frederik Joelving • July 9, 2009
Researchers struggle to produce reliable protection against the malaria parasite.
Dave Levitan • July 6, 2009
One man’s efforts to push back the new version of the HIV epidemic.
Allison Bond • June 30, 2009
Could prions, the proteins that cause diseases like Mad Cow, also be crucial to normal brain functioning?
Erik Ortlip • June 23, 2009
Jean Robert Nonon raises mosquitoes at New York University, sending them across the globe for malaria research.
Lynne Peeples • June 4, 2009
Scientists study how biodiversity affects the spread of animal-borne disease.
Frederik Joelving • June 1, 2009
After decades of abandonment, an unlikely experimental malaria vaccine is stirring again, promising to outshine all other candidates in the pharmaceutical pipeline.
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.