A rare letter written by Russian Empress Catherine the Great urging for her subjects to be vaccinated against smallpox has been unveiled in Moscow, as Russia's current leadership struggles with its own vaccination drive more ...
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Nov 19, 2021
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In a laboratory in Alberta, Canada, a team of scientists recently pieced together overlapping segments of mail order DNA to form a synthetic version of an extinct virus.
Biotechnology
Jul 11, 2017
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(Phys.org)—A dramatic image of a virus replicating and spreading through cells, destroying them as it goes, has been captured by University of Sydney researchers.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 1, 2012
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ETH Zurich researchers demonstrate how vaccinia virus manipulates the cellular waste-disposal system and thereby cleverly tricks the cell into assisting the intruders replication. Now, the virologists have turned the tables, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 19, 2012
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Eliminating disease is a lofty goal, though one rarely attained by humankind. In fact, modern science has achieved it only twice: first with smallpox in humans several decades ago and then again last year with a disease known ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 20, 2012
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(AP) -- Just hours after the first death in the 2001 anthrax attacks, Tom Slezak was told to gather his team, collect his gear and get on a plane.
Other
Aug 26, 2011
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Medical researchers have unlocked the human genome, wiped out smallpox and made great strides in the fight against AIDS.
Other
Jun 7, 2011
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WikiLeaks has released a secret list of infrastructure from pipelines to smallpox vaccine suppliers whose loss or attack by terrorists could "critically impact" US security in the view of the State Department.
Internet
Dec 6, 2010
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Exactly 300 years ago, in 1721, Benjamin Franklin and his fellow American colonists faced a deadly smallpox outbreak. Their varying responses constitute an eerily prescient object lesson for today's world, similarly devastated ...
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Jul 2, 2021
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When University of Kansas researcher Paul Kelton came across a description from missionary Daniel Butrick that documented a Cherokee ritual aimed at fighting smallpox, it revolutionized Kelton's thinking about the role diseases ...
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Apr 21, 2015
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