July 2012's selection of notable quotes
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The discovery of the 2.5-million-year-old Taung Child skull marked a turning point in the study of human brain evolution.
Silk impregnated with bleach may provide a new way to fight the formidable spores of the anthrax bacterium.
The second of the two controversial bird flu papers is published in Science, revealing that just five mutations can render the virus transmissible between ferrets.
For the first time, an oral cholera vaccine is used to control an active epidemic of the bacterial disease.
Shortly after a rat infested supply ship ran aground in Lord Howe Island off the east coast of Australia in 1918, the newly introduced mammals wiped out the island's phasmids—stick insects the size of a human hand. Ever since, phasmids have been cons
African justice systems must change to help curb HIV and tuberculosis transmission in prisons.
New PCR assay can detect more than 40 strains of H5N1 in a single go.
Researchers rediscover a giant insect, thought to have gone extinct a century ago, and plan to reintroduce it to its native island off the coast of Australia.
Sangamo Biosciences is putting a different spin on gene therapy. Rather than replace or supplement a mutated gene with an accurate copy, Sangamo researchers are introducing a mutant copy of the gene for the HIV co-receptor CCR5 into the T cells of HI
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