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Scientific American February 2009 John Rennie	Tuberculosis, The Unromantic Killer Tuberculosis has never stopped being one of the world's most lethal infections
Chemistry World February 11, 2011 Elinor Richards	Thirty minute flu gene detector Scientists in Japan have developed a portable influenza testing kit with better accuracy than current methods, which can give a result in 30 minutes.
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Sarah C. P. Williams	Stephen Quake: Innovative Thinking on Genetic Tests His ideas have already led to a blood test to tell a pregnant woman whether her fetus has Down syndrome. Now, the HHMI investigator is pushing further, to track the success of heart transplants and diagnose autoimmune diseases and allergies.
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Technology Research News December 3, 2003 Eric Smalley	Biochip puts it all together Researchers have made all manner of microfluidic machines, but have yet to come up with cheap, mass-producible biochips for handheld medical and environmental testing. A simple plastic chip puts the necessary pieces together. The $7 device tests blood samples for the presence of E. coli bacteria.
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Mother Jones December 2000 Edwin Dobb	Growing Resistance Is agribusiness squandering one of medicine's most potent weapons?
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Technology Research News August 25, 2004	DNA Copier Uses Little Power Today's laboratory DNA detectors require a lot of energy. Researchers have devised a method that copies the way DNA is replicated biologically in order to avoid the energy-intensive heating and cooling process.
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Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2011 William Looney	Partnering with the New Players Carlos Morel has been closely associated with the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation from the start of his career and now holds a pivotal role in creating a new infrastructure to support translational research on diseases critical to Brazil and other emerging country markets.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Sarah C.P. Williams	Gut Bacteria Do More Than Digest Food Someone can blame their diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease on the churning mass of bacteria that lives inside their intestines, but there's no magic pill to change the dynamics of that complicated world of the human microbiome.
Chemistry World January 3, 2013 Andrew Turley	TB drug milestone for bedaquiline Bedaquiline (sirturo) has become the first drug to be approved in the US for the treatment of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis
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