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    Cutting sugars may be the key to an effective HIV vaccine - 12 month(s) ago

    At a 1984 press conference announcing the identification of HIV as the cause of AIDS, then-secretary of Health and Human Services Margaret Heckler told reporters, “We hope to have a vaccine ready for testing in about two years.” Thirty-nine years and billions of dollars later, we’re still waiting. HIV has three key characteristics that make it a unique challenge for vaccine development: antigenic…

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      Cutting sugars may be the key to an effective #HIV vaccine @scrippsresearch @lab_zhu @YN_Zhang @JoelDalllen #vaccines https://t.co/j8CqXAGVE4 https://t.co/jCiBpT02Ao

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    The Lock and Key of Puerperal Sepsis - 12 month(s) ago

    Sepsis that occurs in women after childbirth, puerperal sepsis, emerged in the 18th Century as a significant cause of mortality. New understandings of the mechanisms that the bacterium Streptococcus pyogenes uses to cause this disease are required to develop strategies to prevent this disease.

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      The Lock and Key of Puerperal Sepsis New mechanisms used by the bacterium Streptococcus pyogenes to cause this life-threatening disease, which affects women within the first 3 days of childbirth https://t.co/RSWerHJnb8

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    Dancers in the Mud: Cable Break Spoils Microbial Party - 1 year(s) ago

    Mud is commonly electrified by cable bacteria forming centimeter-long, living electrical wires that connect oxygen-rich and oxygen-free zones in surface sediments. Here we report the discovery of their lively companions.

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      Dancers in the Mud: Cable Break Spoils Microbial Party Mud can be electrified by cable bacteria forming living electrical wires connecting oxygen-rich & oxygen-free zones in surface sediments. But they are not alone...! @CEMaarhus @Jesper_Bjerg https://t.co/uPgHGuqbrU https://t.co/XuqA89YvS2

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