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Eclectic Genomics: Cat Flu, Dolphin Adaptation to Climate Change, Predicting Cancer, and Diagnosing Rare Disease

PLOS: DNA Science

That information led, thanks to vaccine shelved from the first SARS circa 2003, to the rapid development and deployment of mRNA vaccines against the new infectious disease. The owners of the felines all reported feeding their pets raw meat, and samples of the meat revealed not only flu virus genetic material, but also infectious virus.

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Rare autoantibody diseases: an innovative targeted pathway

Drug Target Review

Approximately three percent of the global population — 240 million people — experience autoantibody diseases, which occur when one’s own body attacks critical organs and tissues. This can create an abnormal immune response that attacks the cells of our bodies and contributes to the development of autoantibody diseases.

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Can Global Genomic Surveillance Forecast the Next Pandemic?

PLOS: DNA Science

These factors are converging to enable both identification of novel infectious diseases as well as microbial resistance, before these threats can impact public health, write a team from the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases in Frontiers in Science. COVID clearly caught us off guard.

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A new viral surveillance system in West Africa is showing the world how to prevent the next pandemic

Broad Institute

He started to imagine how the deadly and contagious disease, if confirmed, might spread to half the city’s population. Eight of the 20 patients died, but the spread of the disease in Nigeria stopped there. Blood and urine samples from the man were waiting for Happi in his lab. Happi felt chilled. They called the idea Sentinel.

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New gene delivery vehicle shows promise for human brain gene therapy

Broad Institute

The enormous challenge of getting therapies past this barrier — a highly selective membrane separating the blood from the brain — has stymied the development of safer and more effective gene therapies for brain diseases for decades. This can make it difficult to translate a gene therapy using these AAVs from animals to humans.

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Targeting a human protein may stop Ebola virus in its tracks

The Pharma Data

To treat Ebola virus infections, researchers are taking a close look at a key piece of the virus: polymerase. Polymerase is a viral protein that directs how Ebola virus replicates its genome as it infects new hosts. Drugs that target polymerase could potentially treat Ebola virus infections and save lives.

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Battling antibiotic resistance in the lab and the clinic

Broad Institute

Every question that I've chosen to pursue in my lab today is deeply informed by what I’ve seen in the clinic,” he said. "I Infectious disease is one of those relatively rare specialties in medicine where you have to understand the whole patient,” he said.

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