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Vital Signs: How Do You Treat a Watermelon in the Belly?

02.08.2010 Early diagnosis and a fruit of modern medicine keeps a killer at bay.

by Tony Dajer

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#1: Vaccine Phobia Becomes a Public-Health Threat

Autism research is progressing quickly, but without a solid diagnosis, some still blame vaccines. 01.25.2010

#4: Stem Cell Science Takes Off

Obama brought a big policy improvement, and researchers made big leaps with the science. 01.25.2010

#6: Swine Flu Outbreak Sweeps the Globe

A scary build-up leads to a mostly mild conclusion. 01.25.2010

#11: The Age of Genetic Medicine Begins

After years of setbacks and failures, gene therapy begins to produce some viable cures. 01.25.2010

#13: Hope for HIV Vaccine

In the unforgiving world of AIDS vaccines, even a modestly protective effect is big news. 01.25.2010

#17: The Common Cold Is Decoded

And now we have a potential target: parts of the genome that are found within all 100 strains of sequenced cold viruses. 01.25.2010

#25: Skip a Meal, Extend Your Life

Life-long calorie restriction seems to lead to longer lives. 01.25.2010

#26: Biologist J. Craig Venter

The pioneering scientist/entrepreneur on biology's next leap: digitally designed life-forms that could produce novel drugs, renewable fuels, and plentiful food for tomorrow’s world. 01.25.2010

#27: Genetic Disease Cured Using Cellular Shell Game

By swapping some of one mother's genes for another, an offspring can end up without birth defects (but with two mothers). 01.25.2010

#29: Richer Nations Can Expect Another Baby Boom

The most developed countries seem to reverse a trend of decreasing fertility. 01.25.2010

Numbers: Water, From Precipitation to Irrigation to Sanitation

01.23.2010

Field Notes: Meddling With Mosquito Romance in the Name of Public Healt

The duets sung by male and female mosquitoes are a critical part of their mating ritual. If researchers can master mosquito music, they may be able to abort a whole generation of disease-carriers. 01.20.2010

Treating Agony With Ecstasy

In the first FDA-approved trial evaluating the street drug's therapeutic applications, it proved phenomenally successful at treating PTSD. 01.13.2010

3 Faces of Eve

Our reporter tries out a trio of genetic tests to find out what they can tell her about her identity and her ancestry. 01.11.2010

5 Questions: The Developing World's Disease Fighter

Jose Gomez-Marquez finds new vaccine technologies that work in the lab and in the real world. 01.09.2010

20 Things You Didn't Know About... Digestion

#15: In which painful condition does your body literally start eating yourself from within? 01.07.2010



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