Ebola Finally Meets Its Match The headlining Ebola crisis of last summer devastated West Africa, marking the largest outbreak since the discovery of the disease in 1976. The glaring lack of a treatment or vaccine caused the virus to quickly spread within Guinea,...
Our mission here at WEEKLY is to keep your industry knowledge up to date. We will be off Thursday, roasting our turkeys and reminding ourselves that it is not the amino acid tryptophan that makes us drowsy after a Thanksgiving feast—it is the massive carbohydrate...
Universal platelet cells—generated from human induced pluripotent stem cells—made their debut last week, courtesy of Advanced Cell Technology (Marlborough, MA). The possibility of producing platelets—the component of blood that stops bleeding on-demand and...
YEARS IN THE MAKING, EBOLA BUBBLES TO THE SURFACE Bubbling under the surface for years like a volcano packing heat, Ebola erupts into a stark reality for the world health community. First appearring in 1976, Ebola is a classified “Category A” potential...
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