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Using Prediction Markets to Forecast Trends in Infectious Diseases
Public health agencies conduct surveillance for a number of infectious diseases and related phenomena. Typically, the collected information is used to help public health officials, researchers, and health care professionals cope with and plan for future disease activity. In many cases, however, s...
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Rendering Mosquitoes Resistant to Arboviruses through RNA Interference
Dengue viruses (DENV) are the most important of the arthropod-borne viruses, or arboviruses. Recognized in the 1870s, dengue fever is considered a reemerging disease due to recent increases in numbers and the widespread distribution of severe cases during the last 30 years. Thus, DENV infect 50 t...
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Reexamining the Riddle of Homochirality
Optically active, or chiral, molecules make up the food we consume, parts of our homes and clothes, and every cell in our bodies. Every organism on our planet owes its existence to the way its molecules rotate plane-polarized monochromatic light. Depending on the particular optical molecule, it e...
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