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Early freshwater life

By | May 19, 2011

Tiny fossil tracks embedded in a California rock formation that was once part of an ancient river may be evidence that freshwater ecosystems arose around 100 million years earlier than what is generally believed. The existing fossil record dates t

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Opinion: Progress toward an HIV/AIDS vaccine

By | May 14, 2011

Recent successes and ongoing efforts to develop a successful vaccine

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Tylenol tied to blood cancer

By | May 14, 2011

Chronic users of acetaminophen (Tylenol) have a higher risk of developing blood cancer, according to a study published this week in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. The increased risk is small, but the finding adds to a growing body of literature th

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Gays have higher cancer risk?

By | May 14, 2011

Gay men are nearly twice as likely to report that they've had cancer as heterosexual men, according to a US health survey published in Cancer. Lesbians and bisexual female cancer survivors also report more health problems than heterosexual women in r

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Engineered proteins for fighting flu

By | May 14, 2011

In a feat of computational biology, researchers design novel proteins capable of neutralizing a key influenza protein

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Vaccine primes T-cells for SIV

By | May 14, 2011

A new vaccine that uses a persistent virus vector controlled SIV in 50 percent of tested monkeys

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Micro Farmers

By | May 1, 2011

Columbia University evolutionary ecologist Dustin Rubenstein explains just why it's so interesting and important to find slime molds that engage in a form of agriculture.

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One Hip Dino

By | May 1, 2011

A closer look at some dinosaur bones accumulating dust since their 1994 discovery reveals a new, athletic sauropod species.

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Power Failure

By | May 1, 2011

Does mitochondrial dysfunction lie at the heart of common, complex diseases like cancer and autism?

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Wrestling with Recurrent Infections

By | May 1, 2011

Clostridium difficile is evolving more robust toxicity, repeatedly attacking its victims, and driving the search for alternative therapies to fight the infection.

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