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Polychromatic scanning electron micrograph of the edge of a blood clot that has formed on the surface of a biomaterial. Leslie et al. describe a surface coating for medical devices that prevents the formation of this type of surface-mediated thrombosis. Credit: James Weaver and Anna Waterhouse
The international community's woeful response to the West African Ebola epidemic has been compounded by the lack of vaccines and therapies on the ground. That is why US government cutbacks to biodefense funding should be reevaluated and five-year funding tranches restored.
As mass spectrometry makes inroads into pathogen identification in the clinical laboratory, deep sequencing—even nanopore sequencing—is waiting in the wings. Jeffrey L. Fox investigates.
A survey of the claims of antibody-related patents granted by the European Patent Office and a review of the type and scope of product claims granted for antibodies.
A new approach overcomes the hurdles of identifying large, complex structural variants in cancer genomes by directly comparing tumor and normal genome sequencing reads.
Efforts to improve the efficiency of photosynthesis in crop plants will benefit from a resource of transcriptomic and metabolomic data on maize and rice.