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Scientists discover small RNA that regulates bacterial infection

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Scientists discover small RNA that regulates bacterial infection People with weakened immune systems are at constant risk of infection. Abell Chair in Molecular and Cellular Biology – and Pengbo Cao, a postdoctoral researcher in Whiteley’s lab, discovered a gene that drives the switch.

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2020 Year in Review: COVID-19, CRISPR and Immunotherapies Define the Year for the Life Sciences

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After being identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei in China, medical officials and scientists got to work to isolate and identify the novel virus that they observed to be causing a new respiratory illness. Most antibody drugs and vaccines have been developed to target parts of the spike protein.