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We may finally be able to beat the common cold with a new drug
An experimental drug stops common cold viruses from building their protective outer armour, preventing them from replicating and spreading
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Hope for herpes vaccine after it wipes out virus in monkeys
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Physics
Bacteria-killing nanofibres could make clothes that stop disease
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Earth
Leopards that live in cities are protecting people from rabies
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Bats spread Ebola because they’ve evolved not to fight viruses
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Flu is evolving in new and unpredictable ways in China’s poultry
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Earth
Chimps are now dying of the common cold and they are all at risk
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Jab in the dark: Why we don’t have a universal flu vaccine
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Waiting for the big one: A new flu pandemic is a matter of time
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It’s too easy for bioterrorists to access dangerous research
The systems designed to stop potentially risky research being published and used to make weapons of terror have “multiple shortcomings”, warns US report
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Environment
Antarctic mystery microbe could tell us where viruses came from
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Eradicating rabies: Why man’s best friend holds the key
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Why bird flu risk is like the Grenfell Tower tragedy
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A bird flu pandemic looms but the US is holding back the fight
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