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TRENDS & INNOVATIONS.(TO THE POINT)
Doctors find new respiratory virus
Yale University researchers found human metapneumovirus, which causes wheezing, cough and fever, in American children. Of 296 Connecticut kids with respiratory infections of unknown causes, 19 had hMPV, Pediatrics said. Some 15% to 34% of respiratory infections have no known cause.
Rat healing ups spinal cure hopes
The successful healing of an adult rat has raised scientists' hopes of finding a cure for people paralyzed by spinal cord damage, the Journal of the Royal Society of ...
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