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Threatwatch: Could a MERS vaccine make people sicker?

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Threatwatch: Could a MERS vaccine make people sicker?

Protecting against the new Middle Eastern coronavirus may be hard as vaccines for related bugs have caused an unwanted reaction, but work on SARS will help

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Hunting pack of bacteria paints a tangled skein

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Hunting pack of bacteria paints a tangled skein

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Malaria bug may give mosquitoes a super sense of smell

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Malaria bug may give mosquitoes a super sense of smell

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Canadian mine may host 2.6-billion-year-old ecosystem

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Canadian mine may host 2.6-billion-year-old ecosystem

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Vaccines to be juggled in final assault against polio

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Gene sequencing helps identify drug-resistant malaria

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Deep life: Strange creatures living far below our feet

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Deep life: Strange creatures living far below our feet

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More antibiotics may not always be better

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Gut bacteria swap is key to knifeless gastric bypass

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Gut bacteria swap is key to knifeless gastric bypass

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Quality control opens path to synthetic biology's Ikea

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Quality control opens path to synthetic biology's Ikea

A new scoring system that rates biological components according to how reliable they are should let bioengineers mass-produce living machines

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The body: The great skin safari

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Antibiotic resistance an 'apocalyptic threat'

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Mystery bug found in Antarctica's Lake Vostok

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Globetrotting Sahara sand takes rain to California

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