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Experts Call for Federal Government to Increase Breast Cancer Prevention Efforts
The federal government needs to make breast cancer prevention a priority and place funding for prevention at the same level as other types of research, says a new sweeping report.
New AIDS Research Suggests that More People Are Cheating than the Surveys Show
Transmission rates through extra-couple relationships are much higher than previous estimates indicate.
C. Grant Willson Wins Japan Prize
Chemist is recognized for development of a process that is now used to manufacture nearly all of the microprocessors and memory chips in the world.
Chemistry Major Wade Wang Is Helping to Build a Better Microchip
Chemistry major Wade Wang is part of the decades-long, global project to the keep the size of transistors shrinking.
Engineered Immune Cells Resist Infection from HIV and Could Ultimately Replace Drug Therapy
Researchers cut and pasted a series of HIV-resistant genes into T cells, specialized immune cells targeted by the virus.
Socially Isolated Rats are More Vulnerable to Addiction, Report Researchers
Social isolation during a key period of adolescence increases vulnerability to addiction as well as the difficulty of extinguishing it.
Lack of Key Enzyme in the Metabolism of Folic Acid Leads to Birth Defects
Scientists discover the clearest mechanistic link yet between folic acid and birth defects, which helps explain why folic acid dietary supplements don't prevent all neural tube defects.
Designer Bacteria May Lead to Better Vaccines
61 new strains of genetically engineered bacteria may improve the efficacy of vaccines for diseases such as flu, pertussis, cholera and HPV.
Virus Caught in the Act of Infecting a Cell
The detailed changes in the structure of a virus as it infects an E. coli bacterium have been observed for the first time.
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