linkedin post 2018-03-24 04:44:47

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FRAGMENT FROM NATURE is an historical vignette about the historic public health success of eradicating smallpox. Not only does the history contain the practices of experimenting on prisoners and the poor, it was also based entirely on supposition not evidence in animals. Preclinical studies were almost unheard of back then. However, this extremely severe plague is now eradicated in no small thanks to these very controversial approaches. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0300985810378649 View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2018-03-23 05:23:34

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ANCIENT POLINTON ORIGINS. “The Polintons are integrated within the genomes of diverse unicellular protists and animals, suggesting an ancient origin, perhaps coincident with the origin of eukaryotes, as well as substantial evolutionary success.” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.12728/full View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2018-03-23 05:20:42

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“THE GIANT VIRUSES of the family Mimiviridae are themselves “infected” with a distinct class of satellite viruses, known as virophages, that reproduce within the giant virus “factories” inside protist cells and depend on the giant virus for their replication.” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.12728/full View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2018-03-23 05:16:41

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EUKARYOTIC DNA VIRUSES. “By far the largest and most common group of DNA viruses in eukaryotes consists of seven families of large viruses (including giant mimiviruses and pandoraviruses, with genomes in the Mb range) that share a common viral ancestry, as indicated by the conservation of approximately 50 (inferred) ancestral genes.” https://lnkd.in/eU7uHHB View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2018-03-23 05:13:04

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EUKARYOTIC VIRUSES. “Altogether, eukaryotes are hosts to 18 recognized families of dsDNA viruses that infect a broad spectrum of unicellular and multicellular organisms, and many unclassified viruses, spanning almost the entire range of viral genome sizes, from approximately 4 kb to almost 2.5 Mb.” https://lnkd.in/eU7uHHB View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2018-03-24 05:05:14

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PRISONER TRIALS. “Lady Montague had Charles Maitland inoculate her 4-year-old daughter in the presence of physicians of the royal court. Charles Maitland was then granted the royal license to perform a trial of variolation on six prisoners in Newgate on August 9, 1721. The prisoners were granted the king's favor if they submitted to this experiment.” https://lnkd.in/eQfnZZv View in LinkedIn
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