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Public Health Concerns in Typhoon Haiyan Aftermath (Updated 11/18/13)
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Turning to Germs in a Post-Antibiotic Era
This Week in Plagues: The Origin of Syphilis, Cheese Made from Armpit Bacteria, And More
Was Salvador Dalí Plagued By Phantom Bed Bugs?
The 51st Anniversary of Silent Spring
Major U.S. Company Makes A Breast Cancer Risk Test Using Once-Patented Genes
Government Shutdown: Bad for Insect Science
Lasers 3-D Print A Home For Bacteria
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OMP’s Friday Link Roundup
Introducing: Our Modern Plagues
The FDA Has Approved The First Artificial Pancreas
Whoa! Scientists Grow A Brain In A Dish
Does CTE, The Brain Disease Found In NFL Players, Really Exist?
Herpes Virus Shoots DNA Into Human Cells With Crazy High Internal Pressure
Unbelievably Detailed Maps Track AIDS In The U.S.
The Cure For Cancer Could Be Found In Space
What Does Cancer Smell Like? New Devices Diagnose Patients By Scent
Common Sweetener Could Help Treat Parkinson’s Disease
Faroe Islands Wants To Sequence The Genes Of Every One Of Its Citizens
A Guide To Not Saying Dumb Things About Angelina Jolie’s Double Mastectomy
New Device Detects Asbestos In Real-Time, With Lasers And Magnets
What Makes Ebola So Deadly?
Scientists Create Hybrid, Air-Transmissible Bird Flu Strains
Largest Current Study Of AIDS Vaccine Shut Down
Gallery: Animals Can Suffer Human Diseases Too
New Bird Flu Spreads: What You Need To Know
What You Need To Know About The New Bird Flu
Test For HIV With A DVD Player
7 Ways Sitting Will Kill You
Gene Therapy Cures Diabetic Dogs In Only One Shot
Flu Researchers Say: Let Us Get Back To Work Studying Risky Mutations
Will This Fish Transform Medicine?
The Flu Virus Can Tell Time. Here’s Why You Should Care
FYI: Why Is There A Winter Flu Season?
Scientists Engineer Algae To Produce New Targeted Cancer Therapy
Cancer Rates Around The World [Infographic]
White Nose Syndrome In Bats Could Yield Clues About AIDS
To Fight Bacteria, Coat Everything In Mucus
Brand-New Vaccine Strategy Works Against Herpes, And Potentially HIV
Where will the next pandemic come from?
Brilliant 10: Shawn Douglas Programs DNA Nanorobots To Kill Cancer
Alzheimer’s May Be Caused By Poor Diet
A New Tack for HIV Vaccines, and Why This Problem Is So Hard to Solve
In World First, Scientists Surgically Implant a Working Bionic Eye In a Blind Patient
Scientists Turn Adult White Blood Cells Into Embryonic Stem Cells
Diagnostic Eyedrops Could Make Patients’ Eyes Light Up With Signs of Neurological Disease
Spotting Cancer Cells in Blood With a 27-Picosecond Camera
How to Give Ferrets A Highly Contagious, Sneeze-Transmissible Version of the Bird Flu
With New Prediction Algorithm, a Patient’s Past Foretells His Medical Future
FDA Panel Endorses an Over-the-Counter HIV Test that Diagnoses in Just 20 Minutes
High Court Rejects Patents on Genes, Sending Breast Cancer Gene Case Back to Square One
A Mouse Made Just For You Will Model Your Medical Problems
The Virus Station: A Field Lab for Finding a Deadly Disease
Chili Crab Dinner Inspires Robot That Crawls Down Your Throat To Grab Your Cancer
A New Moratorium on Research Into Engineered Avian Flu: What It Means for Science
How Mollusk Blood Could Cure Cancer
Will We Soon Be Able to Fire Laser Beams From Our Eyes?
Video: Researchers Watch Type 1 Diabetes As It Unfolds, in Real Time
In First Clinical Trial, Unemployed Rattlesnakes Find Work as Cancer-Fighters
Image-Recognition Algorithm Diagnoses Breast Cancer Better Than a Human Doctor Can
Using Light to Target and Kill Cancer Cells, Without Chemotherapy’s Side Effects
How Computer Modeling Lets Doctors Predict Heart Attacks Before They Happen
Brilliant 10: Molecular Filmmaker