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(Vilcek Foundation) The Vilcek Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2012 Vilcek Prizes in Biomedical Science.

The Prizes carry out the Vilcek Foundation's mission of honoring foreign-born scientists and artists who have made outstanding contributions to American society.

Scientists believe they have found a way to beat sleeping sickness by using a bacterium against the host that spreads the disease to humans - the tsetse fly.

(University of Edinburgh) Fresh insights into how our cells multiply could help scientists develop drugs to treat cancer.

Scientists have shown how some cells in the body can repel attacks from HIV by starving the virus of the building blocks of life.

Scientists say a common heart disease which kills thousands each year is passed genetically from father to son.

In an improbable spot, scientists say they've discovered a world like our own where water and biology might exist

Abnormalities in the brain may make some people more likely to become drug addicts, according to scientists.

(University of Edinburgh) Scientists have shed new light on the way superbugs such as MRSA are able to become resistant to treatment with antibiotics.

(Trinity College Dublin) Scientists in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, have developed a new vaccine to treat cancer at the pre-clinical level.

Two legally blind women appeared to gain some vision after receiving an experimental treatment using embryonic stem cells, scientists reported Monday.