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US has 800 measles cases and outbreaks in several states. Here's what you should know
The U.S. has 800 cases of measles nationwide as of Friday, and two more states identified outbreaks this week. Texas is driving the high numbers, with an outbreak centered in West Texas that started ...
The Trump administration is battling higher education. Here's the list of universities it is targeting.
The Trump administration has disrupted the funding pipeline universities have relied on for research, at times directly ...
Hantavirus: the rare pathogen linked to rodents that attacks the lungs
The recent deaths of a Hollywood couple and three California residents have brought attention to a rare rodent-borne virus ...
Finland finds its first giant virus
Jyvaskylavirus is detailed in a study recently published in eLife, and named for Jyväskylä, the Finnish city where it was ...
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Ticks are emerging. Experts warn of rare but deadly vector-borne virus on the rise
Epidemiologist Elizabeth Schiffman, who supervises the Vectorborne Diseases Unit at the Minnesota Department of Health, ...
Bat cells may combat deadliest human diseases
Why bats can harbor viruses like hantavirus and coronavirus—pathogens that are highly dangerous to humans—without becoming ...
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Wesley Sundquist Named to TIME’s Annual TIME100 List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World
Research in the Sundquist lab laid the foundations for the development of lenacapavir, a drug that prevents HIV infection ...
Why an Aussie lab is racing to make a vaccine for haemorrhagic fever
Examine, a free weekly newsletter covering science with a sceptical, evidence-based eye, is sent every Tuesday. You’re ...