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Researchers uncover genetic factors for severe Lassa fever

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By Allessandra DiCorato February 8, 2024 Credit: NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland Scanning electron image of the Lassa virus budding off a cell. Other scientists had discovered that this gene was critical for the Lassa virus to enter cells. Finding participants for the study would be challenging too.

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Defense-Forward Biosecurity

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Doctors in training are told that when they hear hoofbeats, they should think horses, not zebras; rare diseases are the exception, not the rule. While reading all the sequences present in a sample, researchers want to find any that are out of place, such as those that belong to a never-before-seen virus.

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Annaliesa Anderson, Ph.D., Will Lead Pfizer’s Vaccine Research & Development 

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Dr. Anderson joined Pfizer via Wyeth in 2007. Dr. Anderson earned her doctorate in Biological Sciences at the University of Warwick in the field of microbial ecology and then completed two post-doctoral fellowships.

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Fatty Liver Case Study cb | Blue Heron Health News

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That doctors can’t help was certainly the last straw. Although when I first went to my doctor I didn’t realize this at all. My doctor told me she suspected I had fatty liver disease. I’d gone to the doctor feeling tired. I was going to find out which were the most effective meds and then speak to my doctor about them.

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The Battle for Better Air

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Heat and Filtration In 1844 in Florida, John Gorrie, a young doctor, was treating an endless stream of yellow fever patients. Since 2007, the UK has had a near-total ban on smoking in public indoor spaces and workplaces. This included the most rudimentary of ventilation tools: windows.

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Making a “Miracle” HIV Medicine

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Experimenting with a retrovirus called murine leukemia virus , he found that zidovudine did, in fact, obstruct retrovirus replication by inhibiting reverse transcriptase. Doctors began prescribing combinations of three or more antiretrovirals in 1995, making it unlikely that a mutant HIV strain resistant to one drug could evade the others.