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SciPak: Sneaking Sleeping Sickness Past Immune Defenses
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Researchers have learned more about how the protozoan known as Trypanosoma brucei, which is responsible for sleeping sickness in humans, slips past immune defenses to wreak havoc on its host. According to Didier Salmon at Université Libre de Bruxelles in Gosselies, Belgium, and colleagues,…
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It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairings we have postulated...
– The final closing sentence in Francis Crick and James Watson’s epoch-making paper on the structure of DNA (via crookedindifference)
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
– Franz Kafka (via shedsumlight)
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It is important to learn to be surprised by simple things - for example, by the...
– Noam Chomsky, Language and Problems of Knowledge (via trolleyology)
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