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A Soil Bacterium Now Established on the Gulf Coast Is Behaving Differently Than Its Southeast Asian Relatives
New CDC laboratory work found that Western Hemisphere and African strains of the melioidosis bacterium differ sharply in virulence in mice.
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A Donor Heart Cell Therapy Slowed Arm Function Loss in Advanced Duchenne, but FDA Advisers Voted Against It
The HOPE-3 trial met its primary endpoint in advanced Duchenne, yet an FDA advisory committee voted nine to three against the therapy.
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592 California Workers Who Cut Quartz Countertops Developed an Incurable Lung Disease, and 65 Have Received Lung Transplants
California confirmed 592 silicosis cases among engineered stone countertop workers since 2019, including 65 lung transplants and 31 deaths.
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