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NewsResearchers track the mutations that allow HIV-1 to escape broadly neutralizing antibodies
Scientists have established the most comprehensive view to date of how HIV-1 can escape broadly neutralizing antibodies. They have discovered viral mutations that make HIV-1 strains resistant to two bNAbs, 3BNC117 and 10-1074.
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NewsResearchers develop next-generation CRISPR biocontainment technology for controlling microbial survival without DNA cleavage
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NewsThawing Arctic soil awakens only half of soil microbes, new study reveals
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