The Yersinia pestis strain extracted from the bones of Black Death victims may no longer exist.
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The Yersinia pestis strain extracted from the bones of Black Death victims may no longer exist.
A snapshot of the most highly ranked articles in neuroscience, from Faculty of 1000
Two new papers identify how abnormal chromosome count, or aneuploidy, might relate to cancer.
Caffeinated drinks may help prevent skin cancer by inhibiting a DNA repair pathway, thus killing potentially precancerous cells.
Sheng Wang leaves the Boston University School of Medicine and agrees to retract two published studies.
A new microfluidics chip lets researchers analyze the nucleic acids of 300 individual cells simultaneously.
Repurposing patient’s own T-cells to recognize antigens on cancer cells caused dramatic improvement in three patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
The Nobel Prize winner who discovered the gene that encodes the major histocompatibility complex passes away at age 90.
A snapshot of the most highly ranked articles in microbiology and related areas, from Faculty of 1000
Already reeling from a 20-year losing battle with a devastating disease, the banana variety eaten in the United States is now threatened by a new—but old—enemy.