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How one patient’s rare mutation helped solve a mycobacterial mystery
...Increasingly, scientists have shown that genetics play a central role in determining whether the pathogens that cause a wide range of disease—including influenza, warts, and COVID-19—end up causing serious diseases. The lab of Jean-Laurent Casanova, which has spent 25 years studying the...
Financial crashes, pandemics, Texas snow: How math could predict "black swan" events
What if mathematicians could have seen COVID-19 coming, or could predict the next outbreak? Is it possible that numbers, manipulated by statistics, might warn of future market fluctuations and environmental disasters, or herald vast shifts in finance, trade, and employment? It’s hard to pr...
Scientists release error-free genomes of 25 animals—with another 70,000 coming up
...Armed with the new data, scientists are now studying genes that render bats immune to COVID-19 and questioning long-standing conventions in basic science, such as whether there are meaningful differences between oxytocin and its receptors found in humans, birds, reptiles, and fish. All ...
Scientists map the network of SARS-CoV-2’s helpers inside human cells
...Altogether, this catalogue is a rich resource to for exploring new drug targets for COVID-19 and potential future coronavirus outbreaks.” Surprise protein The genome-wide study also revealed that coronaviruses rely on several proteins whose functions are not fully understood. Among them...
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