Sexy Birds More Immune to Avian Flu
The size of the spot on a male flycatcher bird indicates his immune systemâEURs ability to fight off the avian flu virus. Forehead badge of one male flycatcher: A) during the middle of the mating period (May 18). B) during the late mating period ... [... more]
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Possible Path to Humans for Avian Flu Found
Scientists find a mutation that could provide a possible foothold for the virus in the human population. But they are not yet concerned. New mutations in parts of the avian flu virus might provide a possible route for the virus to enter the human ... [... more]
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How Bird Flu Infects Humans and Why We Don't Spread It
The virus infects peoples' lungs, but too deeply to be coughed or sneezed at another potential victim. More than 100 people have died from infection with the avian flu virus, but so far it can't hop from person to person. That's why there has ... [... more]
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Virtual Pandemic: 90 Days to Infect Entire U.S.
A new computer model reveals how the flu virus might spread quickly across the country and what methods would best thwart it. A new computer model reveals how a pandemic like the avian flu might spread quickly across the United States and what ... [... more]
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Virtual Virus is First Simulation of an Entire Life Form
Researchers give new meaning to the term computer virus with a breakthrough that could lead to better human health. A computer-simulated view of the satellite tobacco mosaic virus. Credit: Anton Arkhipov This is no ordinary computer virus. Using ... [... more]
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Chicken Implants Would Warn of Avian Flu Fever
Digital Angel, which manufactures microchips for implantation in animals, has proposed using biothermal RFID chips in chickens as an early warning system for the avian flu. This week, Digital Angel introduced their Bio-Thermo temperature-sensing ... [... more]
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Crying Babies Linked to Depressed Moms
A new study is the first to establish a link between colic and depression using a large sample of women. You probably don't need to tell mothers this, but colicky babies have been linked to postpartum depression. In a survey of 2,927 new moms, 19 ... [... more]
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Toward Immortality: The Social Burden of Longer Lives
SPECIAL REPORT: Living forever, or at least well past 100, is within reach of today's youngest generation, some scientists say. In a three-day series, LiveScience looks at the implications of the path toward immortality. Adam and Eve lost it, ... [... more]
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War on Bacteria is Wrongheaded
Got antibacterial soap? It could be doing you more harm than good. Pity the poor bacterium, the Rodney Dangerfield of the unicellular world. It eats our trash, makes soil fertile, turns the food we swallow into useful vitamins, and yet it gets no ... [... more]
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The Dirty Truth about Washing Your Hands
Soap, water and 10 seconds of scrubbing is the best medicine. Busy health-care workers typically wash their hands for just 10 seconds, according to a new study. Thankfully, they use soap. But don't waste your money on that alcohol-based, ... [... more]
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The Ethical Dilemmas of Immortality
SPECIAL REPORT, PART 2: If researchers create a fountain of youth, will everyone get a chance to drink from it? And what if people routinely live past 100 but are miserable? Rita Rinna touches the forehead of her aunt, 113-year-old Mary ... [... more]
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Scientists Evolve Virus to Slip Past Human Immune System
In a project that could benefit human health, scientists forced the evolution of a common virus so that it can avoid the human immune system, making it potentially useful as a delivery vehicle for gene therapy. The adeno-associated virus, or AAV, ... [... more]
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