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Drosophila

Fruit fly model of deadly brain diseases could lead to blood test for vCJD

13 Oct 2016

A new model of fatal brain diseases is being developed in the fruit fly by a team led by Dr Raymond Bujdoso at the University of Cambridge, and could...

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Policemen in Seattle wearing masks made by the Red Cross, during the Spanish Influenza epidemic, December 1918.

On the trail of history’s biggest killers

06 Mar 2015

As well as telling us more about earlier societies, the study of diseases in the past is proving an invaluable tool for modern science, as a new book...

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