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Sequences Capture the Code of the Common Cold
Writing last week (Feb. 12) in the journal Science, a multi-institutional team of researchers reports the sequences for all of the 99 known strains of cold…
Team led by Scripps Scientists increases understanding of two types of blindness
The work, led by Scripps Research Professor Martin Friedlander, M.D., Ph.D., was reported in an advance, online edition of the Journal of Clinical…
Understanding how infectious diseases spread depends on unlocking secrets held in existing data
This applies to infectious disease transmission, main topic of a recent workshop organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF), which called for…
Colonial Urbanization in Africa at Dawn of 20th Century Marked Outbreak of HIV
New research indicates that the most pervasive global strain of HIV began spreading among humans between 1884 and 1924, suggesting that growing urbanization in…
DNA barcoding in danger of 'ringing up' wrong species
But the approach as currently practiced churns out some results as inaccurately as a supermarket checker scanning an apple and ringing it up as an orange,…