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The thalassemias and related genetic diseases pose public health problems for many countries in the next millennium. Will it be possible to apply research results to their control and management on the scale required?
High-resolution X-ray computed tomography reveals the three-dimensional structure of microscopic biological tissue and has great clinical potential if the X-ray dose can be reduced (pages 933–935).
A bacteriophage mediates the horizontal transfer of virulence genes between Vibrio cholerae with broad implications for the emergence of pathogenic strains.