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Viruses like SARS-CoV-2 use sugar molecules to hide from the immune system, but scientists at Scripps Research have designed ...

Now, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have shed new light on how bacteria protect themselves from certain phage ...

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A new cancer therapy utilising a genetically modified herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) offers hope for late-stage patients ...

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