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Unlocking secrets of some of the world’s smallest viruses

A typical flu virus is so small that a thousand of them could fit in the width of a human hair. For decades, scientists have known about the existence of viruses many times smaller than that, called microviruses. Traces...

9 July, 2021

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Antibiotics Niet: Soviet use of viruses to cure being considered in U.S.

Antibiotics were “niet” during the Soviet era and, as an alternative, doctors used viruses to cure infections, and this idea is now being considered in the U.S. Overuse of these drugs has produced bacterial resistance...

16 June, 2014

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