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Ever so often viruses manage to successfully infect human beings and spread throughout the population. In the past, viral outbreaks could l...

When AIDS was first discovered it was a disease that eventually kills the patient. With new antiviral therapies, AIDS, and the correspondin...

It is true that micro-organisms such as bacteria have a bad image, as they are the cause of various nasty diseases and discomfort. On the o...

For those materials that we cannot find or produce from natural resources, we use chemistry. Chemical reactions in the lab cane take place ...

Cancer is a disease that is hard to treat. Most therapies aim at stopping growth and attempting to decrease the size of the tumour, but the...

Bacteria are incredibly tiny, and that means that we need special techniques to determine whether a patient has been infected or not. That ...

A couple of months ago, a group of French scientists reported that they found a way to use HIV as a means to treat cancer. They showed som...

Altruism is a form of behaviour thought only to exist in animals that are highly intelligent, such as us human beings. It is defined as hav...

Most vaccines are administered by means of an injection, but this method is far from perfect. It requires the use of, mostly disposable, ne...

The internet basically consists of a bunch of computers that are connected with each other globally. By sending messages back and forth, we...

HIV and cancer are both awful and have serious health impacts. None of us would like to be affected by either one of those, but it seems th...

Whenever there is an outbreak of an Ebola virus, it poses a big problem for the infected population. It is spread by body fluids and variou...

Outbreaks of West Nile virus are pretty common, especially in the United States. About a decade ago, the number of deaths related to West N...

Ebola is one of the deadliest viruses known to roam the world. It causes deadly internal bleeding all over the body and it is especially le...

Recently, scientists have begun experiments with bacteria as a new form of treatment. For some diseases it is hypothesized that administeri...

Simulation of life is something that sounds like science fiction or part of the popular film trilogy The Matrix. However, computers are get...

Many different bacteria and viruses try to infect our bodies on a daily basis. Some are more deadly than others, and for various microbes w...

Dutch and American scientists shocked the world a while ago by revealing that they have successfully modified the H5N1 influenza virus in ...

We have a peculiar relationship with bacteria. Some are out there to kill us, but some of them do not harm us at all, and are in fact quite...

We have been quite successful in fighting 'invisible' threats such as viruses and bacteria over the last fifty years. The discovery...