The Gardasil vaccine has HPV components that protect against virus types that cause 70 percent of cervical cancer and 90 percent of genital warts. It contains purified viruslike particles from the ...

This pocket-sized travel gadget can help ensure you're drinking clean water from your reusable water bottle no matter where ...

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For over three decades, HIV has played an elaborate game of hide-and-seek with researchers, making treating—and possibly even ...

A new study in fruit flies describes how an animal's gut reacts differently to beneficial microbes versus harmful pathogens.

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CRISPR-Cas systems are adaptive immune systems found in prokaryotes that defend against invading nucleic acids through CRISPR ...

Thanks to efforts from doctors, researchers, health care providers and nonprofits such as Blood Cancer United, certain types of blood cancers are not the terminal diagnoses that these were decades ago ...