Facebook accounts and telephone records can be used to pinpoint the best individuals to vaccinate to stop a disease outbreak in its tracks, researchers said Wednesday.
Mathematics
Jan 3, 2018
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A gardener in Pasco County recently found a giant African land snail—or what Florida officials call "one of the most damaging snails in the world."
Plants & Animals
Jun 30, 2022
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Small-scale poultry farmers in Vietnam tend to respond to viral outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) by rapidly selling their birds as a way to avoid financial loss, according to a new study by an international ...
Veterinary medicine
Aug 28, 2020
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A new, faster and safer way of diagnosing the Ebola virus has been developed by an academic from Northumbria University, Newcastle.
Biochemistry
Sep 28, 2017
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In 2012, environmental systems graduate student Lauren Schiebelhut was collecting DNA from ochre sea stars living along the Northern California coast—part of an effort to study genetic diversity in various marine species ...
Ecology
Jul 20, 2018
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(AP) -- Nature is pummeling the United States this year with extremes.
Earth Sciences
Sep 4, 2011
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A multidisciplinary group that includes the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Washington at Tacoma has developed a novel platform to diagnose infectious disease at the point-of-care, using a ...
Analytical Chemistry
Oct 19, 2017
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Almost 100 million euros has been spent so far on conservation efforts for the last 250 remaining Iberian lynxes in the wild. But the charismatic species is likely to go extinct within 50 years because the current management ...
Ecology
Jul 21, 2013
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Satellite images are great for creating maps, finding bad guys, and, it turns out, predicting when deadly illnesses may break out.
Ecology
Feb 24, 2011
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As SARS-CoV-2 has spread around the world, its transmission rate has varied alongside variations in its genome, according to researchers at the University of California, Davis. Surveillance of the virus genome may help public ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 3, 2020
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