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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.

May 18, 2009

Studying the early stages of tuberculosis infection could help scientists figure out new ways to tackle the disease.

May 11, 2009

Pigs cough up a mish-mashed flu virus, something scientists saw coming for years.

May 5, 2009

Could increasing global temperatures cause this tropical disease to spread?

April 20, 2009

Scientists are researching ways to use a “gene knockout” technique known as RNA interference to help fight HIV.

March 10, 2009

A microscopic arms race may lead to a new cost effective malaria treatment.

March 8, 2009

A recent Ebola Reston outbreak among pigs in the Philippines is cause for concern among some scientists.

January 9, 2009

In Latin America, little-known infections are as harmful as malaria or HIV, but their treatment is cheap.

December 31, 2008

A new study finds that gut microbes may help protect against the onset of type 1 diabetes.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

November 14, 2008

Geneticists hope their stem cell research will find new drugs against this debilitating disease.

October 10, 2008

Researchers get aggressive with drug-resistant strains of TB and see promising results.

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