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Bats harbor viral human pathogens without getting sick. A new cell line could open doors to new therapies based on these flying mammals’ immune secrets.

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Viruses Keep Mice from Stressing Out

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The Viral Microbiome

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Relevant Models Reflect Real-world Needs

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Relevant Models Reflect Real-World Needs

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Connecting the Dots That Link Diabetes and Infection Severity

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What Happens When You Catch More than One Virus?

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Polio Detected in New York City Wastewater

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Climate Change Worsens Most Infectious Diseases

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Mosquitoes Drawn to Hosts Infected by Dengue, Zika

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Monkeypox: What We Know (and What We Don’t)

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Wet Weather Brings Japanese Encephalitis to Australia

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SARS-CoV-2 Can Spread Via Cell-to-Cell Transmission

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HIV DNA Circularizes to Bypass CRISPR-Based Treatments

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Book Excerpt from Feeling & Knowing

Making Laboratory Clean Air Decisions

Charting a Path to Clean Laboratory Air

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The Pandemic Crushed the Flu—What Happens When It Returns?

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Cities Have Distinct Microbial Signatures: Study

The Scientist Speaks - Thieves on the Inside: Viral Control of Host Gene Expression

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Two New Coronaviruses Make the Leap into Humans

A Connected Community: The Rise of Microbiome Research

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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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The Genes That Shaped Pets and Domesticated Livestock

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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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Seeing and Sorting with Confidence

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Waters Enhances Alliance iS HPLC System Software, Setting a New Standard for End-to-End Traceability and Data Integrity 

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Agilent Unveils the Next Generation in LC-Mass Detection: The InfinityLab Pro iQ Series

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Agilent Announces the Enhanced 8850 Gas Chromatograph

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