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The measles virus attacks long-lived immune cells, reducing antibody-mediated protection from other infectious diseases and casting a long shadow of childhood mortality.

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New Frontiers in Vaccine Development

New Frontiers in Vaccine Development

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Solutions for Accelerating Infectious Disease Research

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A Wastewater Surveillance Program Sounds the Alarm on Avian Influenza

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Viral Activation Can Shape Breast Milk Composition

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Deciphering the Unusual Pattern of Bird Flu Symptoms in Cows

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Why Some HPV Infections Carry More Cervical Cancer Risk

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Transmissible Tumors, 1909

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Monir Moniruzzaman Studies the Secrets of Giant Viruses

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What Happens When You Catch More than One Virus?

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Recently Discovered Virus Family Infects a Human Oral Amoeba

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Scientists ID Heart-Damaging SARS-CoV-2 Protein

COVID-19: Lessons Learned

COVID-19: Lessons Learned

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US Agency to Look into Project on Modified Coronavirus

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Is a Winter COVID-19 Case Surge Coming?

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Unprecedented Avian Flu Epidemic Could Presage Year-Round Outbreaks

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Experts Mixed on Risk of “Centaurus” Omicron Subvariant

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What Is This New Langya Virus? Do We Need to Be Worried?

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How the Omicron Subvariant BA.5 Became a Master of Disguise—and What It Means for the Current COVID-19 Surge

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Opinion: Destroy All Samples of the Smallpox Virus

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The Scientist Speaks - To Conserve and Protect: The Quest for Universal Vaccines

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Biomedical Informatician Atul Butte Dies at 55

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A Gut Pathogen’s Unexpected Weapon Against Amyloid Diseases

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Universe 25 Experiment

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Maternal Iron Deficiency Can Trigger Sex Reversal in Mouse Embryos

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Taking Control of Cellular Contamination with PCR Testing

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Electronic Records in Cell Culture Management

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Nergal Networks: Where Friendship Meets Infection

A citizen science game explores how social choices and networks can influence how an illness moves through a population.

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Maximizing Lentivirus Recovery

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Unraveling Complex Biology with Advanced Multiomics Technology

Unraveling Complex Biology with Five-Dimensional Multiomics

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Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

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