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Scientists Link Covid-19 Risk to Genetic Variations

The Trump administration chose five companies as the most likely to produce a vaccine. The tally of new cases is rising in the U.S., partly because of expanded testing. Italy ends travel restrictions.

From the NYTimes News-2020-6-4:8:5:1

Genes May Leave Some People More Vulnerable to Severe Covid-19

Geneticists have turned up intriguing links between DNA and the disease. Patients with Type A blood, for example, seem to be at greater risk.

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Extinction crisis 'poses existential threat to civilisation'

A study presents more evidence that the world is in the midst of a sixth mass extinction.

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Jun 5 16:00GeneRax: A tool for species tree-aware maximum likelihood based gene family tree inference under gene duplication, transfer, and loss - Benoit Morel, Alexey M Kozlov, Alexandros Stamatakis, Gergely J Szöllősi (MBE)
Jun 4 16:00Collagen sequence analysis reveals evolutionary history of extinct West Indies Nesophontes ('island-shrews') - M Buckley et al. (MBE)
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