Waking up dormant HIV
A chemical called suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid, recently approved as a leukaemia drug, has now been shown to ‘turn on’ latent HIV.
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Licorice offers cancer prevention strategy
A chemical component of licorice may offer a new approach to preventing colorectal cancer without the adverse side effects of other preventive therapies.
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Historical effort to save crops
Push by Global Crop Diversity Trust is rapidly reviving ailing seed samples from 46 countries that could provide genetic traits vital to maintaining global food security.
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Simplicity in nanoscale resolution
Scientists have discovered that the particular arrangement of proteins that produces the sturdiest product is not the arrangement with the most built-in redundancy or the most complicated pattern.
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NCIS Atlanta: Severe Rash Illness in Baja
A mysterious cluster of illnesses and deaths of unknown cause was recently reported in Baja California, a Mexican state that – as the Spanish translation suggests – is situated just below the border. Our shared border with Mexico fosters a mutual interest in epidemiologic events like this one – where time is of the [...]
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