After a year-long voluntary moratorium to discuss regulations and safety measures, scientists are set to resume controversial H5N1 research.
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Long-term, life, and disability insurers may still be able to deny coverage to patients with a genetic disease, under current nondiscrimination legislation.
The US Food and Drug Administration approves the first flu vaccine made from recombinant proteins rather than a weakened virus.
Fecal transplants outcompeted traditional antibiotics at curing a deadly intestinal infection.
Transplanting synthetic stool made of beneficial microbes cures deadly diarrheal infections in two patients.
Stomachs of flesh-eating flies carry the DNA of animals in remote rainforests.
Fungi in 100 million year-old seafloor sediments could possess novel antibiotics.
The healing powers of maggots may lie in their secreted proteins, which restrain the human immune response.
The total number of new drugs approved this year ties last year for the highest since 2004, suggesting that the pharmaceutical industry is recovering.
The US Food and Drug Administration is taking steps to get new devices on the market sooner—and antibiotics may be next.
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