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  Frankenstein Programmers Test a Cybersecurity Monster

  August 27, 2012 — To catch a thief, you have to think like one. Computer scientists are trying to stay one step ahead of cyberattackers by creating their own monster. Their monster can cloak itself as it steals and ... > full story
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  Compound Discovered That Boosts Effect of Vaccines Against HIV and Flu

  August 26, 2012 — Scientists have discovered a compound that greatly boosts the effect of vaccines against viruses like flu, HIV and herpes in ... > full story
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  Promising New Drug Target Discovered for Treatment and Prevention of Heart Failure

  August 25, 2012 — A promising new drug target for the treatment and prevention of heart failure has been ... > full story
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  New Strain of Hand, Foot and Mouth Virus Worries Parents, Pediatricians

  August 24, 2012 — Your child goes to bed in perfect health. The next morning she wakes up with high fever, malaise and bright red blisters erupting all over her body. Dermatologists say the disturbing scenario has ... > full story
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  Virus Detector Harnesses Ring of Light in 'Whispering Gallery Mode'

  August 24, 2012 — By affixing nanoscale gold spheres onto a microscopic bead of glass, researchers have created a super-sensor that can detect even single samples of the smallest known viruses. The sensor uses a ... > full story

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  • By Detecting Smallest Virus, Researchers Open Possibilities for Early Disease Detection
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  Advantage Flu Virus: Scientists Discover One of the Ways the Influenza Virus Disarms Host Cells

  August 23, 2012 — Scientists have discovered one of the ways the influenza virus disarms our natural defense system. The virus decreases the production of key immune regulating proteins in human cells that help fight ... > full story
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  Field Guide to the Epstein-Barr Virus Charts Viral Paths Toward Cancer

  August 23, 2012 — Researchers have published the first annotated atlas of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) genome, providing the best look yet at how EBV interacts with human genes and proteins. EBV, which is thought to ... > full story
• Immune System
  Lymphoma
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  Toward Medicines That Recruit the Body's Natural Disease-Fighting Proteins

  August 22, 2012 — Like recruiters pitching military service to a throng of people, scientists are developing drugs to recruit disease-fighting proteins present naturally in everyone’s blood in medicine’s ... > full story
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  Microbiologists Find New Approach to Fighting Viral Illnesses

  August 22, 2012 — By discovering how certain viruses use their host cells to replicate, microbiologists have identified a new approach to the development of universal treatments for viral illnesses such as meningitis, ... > full story
• Stem Cells
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  Researchers Return Blood Cells to Stem Cell State

  August 22, 2012 — Scientists have developed a reliable method to turn the clock back on blood cells, restoring them to a primitive stem cell state from which they can then develop into any other type of cell in the ... > full story

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