Monthly Archives: October 2016
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Is Mayaro the New Zika?
Florida researchers have discovered a mosquito-borne virus called Mayaro in Haiti, where it had never been observed before.The virus was detected in a blood sample of an 8-year-old boy in January 2015 who had tested negative for other mosquito-borne illnesses, including Chikungunya and Dengue. ...
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2016 Nobel Prize for Physiology
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy. Autophagy is a general term for the degradation of cytoplasmic components within lysosomes and Ohsumi's discoveries opened the path to understanding the fundamental impo...
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