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Monitoring of bird flu outbreaks around the world is spotty, with most countries performing little in the way of genetic analysis.
A series of articles published in open access journal mBio underscores the variety in opinion on whether a transmissible H5N1 strain should be studied.
Biosecurity agency will give controversial H5N1 bird flu research another look-over in light of new data and clarification.
With an eye to understanding animal regeneration, Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado has turned a freshwater planarian into a model system to watch.
Pooled data from H5N1 bird flu studies suggests that the World Health Organization may be underestimating infection and overestimating fatality.
For the first time researchers have demonstrated the molecular tango that gives rise to repeating patterns in developing animal embryos.
The World Health Organization announced today that it recommends publishing the two controversial H5N1 papers in full, as soon as a few details are worked out. And Science is listening.
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