What Travelers Should Know About the Hantavirus, According to Medical Experts

“Hantavirus is most commonly spread through contact with rodent urine, droppings, [and] saliva in the case of a bite,” says Dr. Carla McWilliams, chief of infectious disease, quality and safety for Cleveland Clinic Weston Hospital. “Though human-to-human transmission has been reported, it is considered to be quite rare.” There are no specific treatments for hantavirus,…

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RNA-triggered cell killing with CRISPR–Cas12a2

Phylogenetic analysis The amino acid sequence of GeCas12a2 was aligned with other Cas12a2 nuclease sequences15,59 using Clustal Omega60. The alignment was trimmed with ClipKIT61 and used to reconstruct a phylogeny with IQ-TREE v2.0.3 (-m MFP -T 8 -B 1000)62, using a maximum-likelihood approach. The phylogeny included Cas12a orthologues and used Cas12c as an outgroup. Branch…

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US military attacks Iran-flagged tanker attempting to breach naval blockade

The U.S. military disabled an Iranian-flagged unladen oil tanker on Wednesday morning that attempted to breach the U.S. naval blockade, as Washington and Tehran have seemingly made progress in potentially ending the conflict. U.S. Central Command (Centcom) said the tanker, M/T Hasna, transited in international waters toward an Iranian port on the Gulf of Oman…….

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