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Ruvkun and his co-recipients found that miRNAs—long regarded as far less versatile players in gene activity—play a significant role in governing growth and development in animals and plants. This discovery could have implications for diseases such as viral infections, heart failure, and cancer, as well as shed light on normal functions like muscle action...
Thomas H. Weller, a Nobel laureate who spent decades as a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and whose tissue-culture research paved the way to the development of vaccines for polio and other viral diseases such as chicken pox and measles, died on Aug. 23 at his home in Needham, Mass...
...discovery was instrumental in the development of vaccines for polio, a viral infectious disease eliminated from the Americas in 1994, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 16,000 cases of paralytic polio were recorded every year in the U.S. before a vaccine was first introduced in 1952 by Jonas Salk and in 1962 by Albert Sabin. Only four countries are still listed as never having interrupted endemic transmission of polio as of 2006, according to the World Health Organization...
...Those were very common childhood viral diseases,” Peter said. "Now, we all get vaccines...
...always felt that the horror genre was one in which you could do extreme, intense things that maybe would be a little hard to take if it weren't for the genre protecting you - like a viral coating, but the DNA inside is very potent. [The Fly] was a story that if you did it straight, would never get made. Because it's basically: two eccentric but beautiful people meet each other, fall in love, one of them gets a hideous wasting disease, the other watches and eventually helps him commit suicide - end of story. It's like, hey, high...