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Anna Rise/Getty Images/iStockphoto Scientists now believe surpressing the HIV/AIDS virus while bolstering the immune system is the best approach towards a potential cure. Scientists seeking a cure for AIDS say they have been inspired, not crushed, by a major setback in which two HIV positive patients believed to have been cured found the virus re-invading their bodies once more. True, ...

The important thing about Caenorhabditis elegans, also called a roundworm or nematode, is how simple it is. A mouse may be small, but it’s still a mammal, and composed of many billions of cells. Even a fruit fly is a relatively complex organism, and as scientists manipulate its genes they see all kinds of emergent properties arising from the incredible ...

A few years ago, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were touted as the Wave of the Future that would revolutionize materials engineering from semiconductors to space elevators. These days, CNTs have largely been obscured by the mad rush to research graphene (though not entirely), but there’s still some work being done on nature’s version of the ultimate Fruit Roll-up. This week, scientists ...