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New viruses identified in bats in China
Bats found near orchards harbor pathogens that could be passed to livestock or humans.
Some early-onset cancers are on the rise. Why?
The rates of certain early-onset cancers are on the rise. The reasons are complex, experts say.
There's a new blood test for Alzheimer's — here's how it works
In patients showing cognitive decline, a new blood test for Alzheimer's is expected to make diagnosis more convenient, accessible and inexpensive than other existing tests.
Doctors could combat antibiotic resistance — and save lives — by tracking superbug evolution in real time, study hints
A new proof-of-concept study explored the feasibility of tracking the evolution of superbug infections in real time to help save infected patients.
HIV/AIDS: Facts about the viral infection that attacks the immune system
Learn how HIV spreads, how it affects the body and what treatments are available.
Single gene may help explain the plague's persistence throughout human history
Alterations to a single gene in the plague bacterium's genome have shed light on a method the germ has used to survive and spread through the ages.
US woman dies from prion disease — after being given an infected injection 50 years earlier
The patient was unknowingly infected with an abnormal protein that causes a rare, fatal neurological disease with no treatment.
Cucumbers recalled after multistate Salmonella outbreak leaves dozens sick
CDC and FDA officials are investigating the outbreak after 9 patients were hospitalized amid cucumber recall.
Never-before-seen 'extreme' microbes surrounded NASA robot before it was sent to Mars 18 years ago, new study reveals
DNA analysis has revealed that 26 novel species of "extremophile" bacteria were lurking in a clean room that housed NASA's Phoenix lander before it was launched to Mars in 2007. The hardy microbes might be capable of surviving in space.
