Researchers analyzed genomes and immune cells from 26 bat species and found two separate antibody heavy-chain loci. The discovery expands understanding of mammalian immunity and may help explain how ...

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Scientists aim to alter the genetics of mosquitoes to prevent them from being vehicles of deadly diseases.

As they say, the difference between medicine and poison is the dose. The difference between viral transmission and infection, it appears, has to do with the restraint found in the virus itself.