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Disease control
Disease control refers to public health efforts to reduce the number of new infections, the number of people who are currently infected, and the number of people who become sick and/or die from a disease.
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APR 08, 2015Cell & Molecular Biology
Bacteria have traditionally been viewed as solitary organisms that "hang out on their own," says molecular biologist Kev ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeAPR 07, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Bodies found in a 200 year-old Hungarian crypt have revealed secrets of how tuberculosis (TB) took hold in 18th century ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeAPR 06, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Genetic studies in humans, zebrafish and mice have revealed how two different types of genetic variations team up to cau ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 06, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Growing up near Springfield, Mass., Laurie Boyer was always interested in science but didn't have many opportunities to ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 02, 2015Genetics & Genomics
A collaborative study between researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Techno ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 02, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Cancer-fighting pink pineapples, heart-healthy purple tomatoes and less fatty vegetable oils may someday be on grocery s ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 02, 2015Neuroscience
Scientists at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health have identified a unique pattern of immune molecules ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 01, 2015Neuroscience
Researchers have found that male mice trill startlingly intricate songs to beguile female mice-in much the same way as b ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeAPR 01, 2015Cancer
A drug used for decades to treat leukemia may have other uses in the fight against cancer, researchers at the University ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAPR 01, 2015Cancer
The body's immune system fights disease, infections and even cancer, acting like foot soldiers to protect against invade ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 30, 2015Neuroscience
Brown fat tissue, the body's "good fat," communicates with the brain through sensory nerves, possibly sharing informatio ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 30, 2015Neuroscience
New research has identified some of the processes by which molecules associated with neurological diseases can disrupt t ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 27, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Traditionally, to understand how a gene functions, a scientist would breed an organism that lacks that gene - "knocking ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 27, 2015Immunology
It was a puzzling case. The 2.5-year-old French girl had been healthy, but in 2011 she had to be hospitalized because sh ...Written By: Will HectorMAR 27, 2015Neuroscience
Where ALS comes from and how it progresses are mysteries that continue to vex medical science. But recent research at Sw ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 26, 2015Neuroscience
Findings by a research team at the University of California, have brought up a very interesting question: Could a pill m ...Written By: Robert WoodardMAR 26, 2015Cancer
Scientists at UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have combined their nanote ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 26, 2015Immunology
Antibiotic resistance is on its way to spreading around the world among bacteria that are often involved in respiratory ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeMAR 26, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Just as two DNA strands naturally arrange themselves into a helix, DNA's molecular cousin RNA can form hairpin-like loop ...Written By: Judy O'RourkeMAR 25, 2015Genetics & Genomics
In the four decades since Stanford's Gerald Reaven, MD, helped demonstrate that insulin resistance can lead to type 2 di ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 24, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Designer babies? It's far from a whimsy, and now a new technology that would make it possible to alter human DNA at the ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAR 24, 2015Neuroscience
Milk has long been associated with healthy bones, but a new study from the University of Kansas Medical Center might hav ...Written By: Will HectorMAR 24, 2015Earth & The Environment
Winter storms can wreak havoc with our lives, but you probably don't think of them as bringing the sort of deadly menace ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 23, 2015Microbiology
Microbes may just be the next diet craze. Researchers have programmed bacteria to generate a molecule that, through norm ...Written By: Will Hector
APR 08, 2015
Cell & Molecular Biology
Bacteria have traditionally been viewed as solitary organisms that "hang out on their own," says molecular biologist Kev
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
APR 07, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Bodies found in a 200 year-old Hungarian crypt have revealed secrets of how tuberculosis (TB) took hold in 18th century
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
APR 06, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Genetic studies in humans, zebrafish and mice have revealed how two different types of genetic variations team up to cau
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 06, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Growing up near Springfield, Mass., Laurie Boyer was always interested in science but didn't have many opportunities to
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 02, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
A collaborative study between researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Techno
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 02, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Cancer-fighting pink pineapples, heart-healthy purple tomatoes and less fatty vegetable oils may someday be on grocery s
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 02, 2015
Neuroscience
Scientists at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health have identified a unique pattern of immune molecules
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 01, 2015
Neuroscience
Researchers have found that male mice trill startlingly intricate songs to beguile female mice-in much the same way as b
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
APR 01, 2015
Cancer
A drug used for decades to treat leukemia may have other uses in the fight against cancer, researchers at the University
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 01, 2015
Cancer
The body's immune system fights disease, infections and even cancer, acting like foot soldiers to protect against invade
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 30, 2015
Neuroscience
Brown fat tissue, the body's "good fat," communicates with the brain through sensory nerves, possibly sharing informatio
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 30, 2015
Neuroscience
New research has identified some of the processes by which molecules associated with neurological diseases can disrupt t
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 27, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Traditionally, to understand how a gene functions, a scientist would breed an organism that lacks that gene - "knocking
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 27, 2015
Immunology
It was a puzzling case. The 2.5-year-old French girl had been healthy, but in 2011 she had to be hospitalized because sh
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAR 27, 2015
Neuroscience
Where ALS comes from and how it progresses are mysteries that continue to vex medical science. But recent research at Sw
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 26, 2015
Neuroscience
Findings by a research team at the University of California, have brought up a very interesting question: Could a pill m
...
Written By:
Robert Woodard
MAR 26, 2015
Cancer
Scientists at UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have combined their nanote
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 26, 2015
Immunology
Antibiotic resistance is on its way to spreading around the world among bacteria that are often involved in respiratory
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
MAR 26, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Just as two DNA strands naturally arrange themselves into a helix, DNA's molecular cousin RNA can form hairpin-like loop
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
MAR 25, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
In the four decades since Stanford's Gerald Reaven, MD, helped demonstrate that insulin resistance can lead to type 2 di
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 24, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Designer babies? It's far from a whimsy, and now a new technology that would make it possible to alter human DNA at the
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 24, 2015
Neuroscience
Milk has long been associated with healthy bones, but a new study from the University of Kansas Medical Center might hav
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAR 24, 2015
Earth & The Environment
Winter storms can wreak havoc with our lives, but you probably don't think of them as bringing the sort of deadly menace
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 23, 2015
Microbiology
Microbes may just be the next diet craze. Researchers have programmed bacteria to generate a molecule that, through norm
...
Written By:
Will Hector