A third dose of the MMR vaccine given during an intense outbreak appears to have provided herd-immunity to control the spread of the disease.
A third dose of the MMR vaccine given during an intense outbreak appears to have provided herd-immunity to control the spread of the disease.
New noninvasive methods of selecting the most viable embryo could revolutionize in vitro fertilization.
| November 1, 2012
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Successive awakening of soil microbes drives a huge pulse of CO2 following the first rain after a dry summer.
How neuroscience research can inform military counterintelligence tactics, and the moral responsibilities that accompany such research
Large RNA-protein packets use a novel mechanism to escape the cell nucleus.
Mice fed a mix of six strains of bacteria were able to fight a C. difficile infection that causes deadly diarrhea and is resistant to most types of treatment.
Individuals of a newly discovered microbe species line up end-to-end to form electron transport cables many times their length.
Swapping chromosomes from one human egg to another could eliminate mitochondrial DNA mutations that cause disease.