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Poisonous Shrooms Battle Cancer
By Megan Scudellari
A deadly mushroom toxin shrinks pancreatic tumors in mice.
Ants Share Pathogens for Immunity
By Sabrina Richards
A new study shows that grooming by ants promotes colony-wide resistance to fungal infections by transferring small amounts of pathogen to nestmates.
Opinion: The Risk of Forgoing Vaccines
By Juliette K. Tinker
Herd immunity, or the protection of individuals who are not vaccinated due to generally high vaccination rates within a population, does not currently exist in many pockets of the US.
How Predictive are Genomes?
By Cristina Luiggi
Researchers put the predictive power of whole genome sequencing to the test.
Bird Flu Papers to Publish
By Sabrina Richards
Biosecurity board recommends publication of data detailing transmissibility of H5N1 avian influenza.
Next Generation: Painless Vaccine Patch
By Megan Scudellari
Vaccination via tiny microneedles elicits a powerful immune response in the skin.
Deliberating Over Danger
The creation of H5N1 bird flu strains that are transmissible between mammals has thrown the scientific community into a heated debate about whether such research should be allowed and how it should be regulated.
Are Cancer Stem Cells Ready
for Prime Time?
By Suling Liu, Hasan Korkaya, and Max S. Wicha
A flood of new discoveries has refined our definition of cancer stem cells. Now it’s up to human clinical trials to test if they can make a difference in patients.
Antibiotics in the Animals We Eat
By Bonnie M. Marshall and Stuart B. Levy
Low-dose antibiotics in animal feed fuel drug-resistance in human infectious diseases.
