- By Tudor Vieru
- February 18th, 2014
New Generation of Vaccines Produce Strong Immune Responses
They are developed based on research conducted at MIT
- By Tudor Vieru
- February 10th, 2014
Dengue Fever and West Nile Fever Viruses Partially Decoded
This represents a significant achievement in fighting these diseases
- By Tudor Vieru
- February 3rd, 2014
Blood Cells Spontaneously Turn into Cancer Cells Every Day
The immune system is the only thing preventing cancer from settling in
- By Tudor Vieru
- February 1st, 2014
Beijing Smoke Contains 1,300 Microbe Species
This cocktail poses massive public health challenges
- By Tudor Vieru
- January 31st, 2014
Bee Queens Are One Gene Away from Workers
New study sheds some light on how queens differ from the crowd
- By Tudor Vieru
- January 31st, 2014
First Mouse Model for the Dreaded MERS Created
This achievement could bring a potential cure closer to reality
- By Tudor Vieru
- January 30th, 2014
Why Humans Evolved Lactose Tolerance
Milk was off-limits just a few thousand years ago
- By Tudor Vieru
- January 29th, 2014
New Type of Stem Cells Created in the Lab
These cells can even form placental tissues, developers say
- By Tudor Vieru
- January 27th, 2014
Bacon Supplies at Risk: Pigs Decimated by New Virus
Piglets are the primary targets for this infectious agent
- By Tudor Vieru
- January 27th, 2014
Study Shows Cancer Is 25 Percent More Diverse than First Thought
The investigation analyzed thousands of tumors for genetic markers
- By Tudor Vieru
- January 27th, 2014
Russian Tuberculosis Bacteria Develops Drug Resistance
The microorganism is learning how to spread faster as well
- By Tudor Vieru
- January 24th, 2014
How Daughter Cells Form During Cell Division
New research explains this process in great detail
- By Tudor Vieru
- January 21st, 2014
Plant Virus May Be Responsible for Honeybee Decline
The pathogen is apparently able to infect insects as well
- By Tudor Vieru
- January 16th, 2014
Proteins Vibrate in Different Patterns Inside the Body
These motions may be critical to human life, experts say
- By Tudor Vieru
- January 14th, 2014
Immune Mechanism Fighting Off Malaria Identified
Boosting it could reduce the number of infections, experts say
- By Tudor Vieru
- January 14th, 2014
Evolutionary Mismatches Between Humans and Microbes Lead to Cancer
Stomach cancer rates increase when microbes do not co-evolve with hosts
- By Tudor Vieru
- January 13th, 2014
Humans Share Locomotion Patterns with Zebrafish
Scientists make interesting discovery while studying the fish