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Vietnam farmers' poultry sales during outbreaks may increase virus transmission
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Small-sale poultry farmers rapidly selling birds to avoid financial loss after an outbreak of avian influenza may increase transmission.

Grant to enable creation of AI tools to improve adolescents’ diets and nutrition
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Girls surround meal prep table

New grant for developing an app to offer diet and nutritional advice to adolescent girls living in urban settings in Ghana and Vietnam.

Measles outbreaks in Niger linked to rainfall and temperature, study finds
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Children with ball in Niger

Rainfall and temperature can affect patterns of measles outbreaks through their affects on rainfall and temperature.

Nita Bharti awarded funding to study how people’s movement impacts COVID-19 transmission
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Nita Bharti
New tool for identifying endangered corals could aid conservation efforts
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Acroporid coral
Reducing transmission risk of livestock disease
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person herding goats in Africa

The risk of transmitting the livestock virus PPRV increases with specific husbandry practices, according to a new study.

Hedong Li awarded $1.8M from NIH to study use of microRNAs in neuronal reprograming for spinal cord repair
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Hedong Li and Mei Jiang

Hedong Li has been awarded $1.8M from the National Institutes of Health to study how microRNAs could be used to treat spinal cord injury.

Jean-Paul Armache awarded funding to study how a coronavirus protein takes over human protein-making machinery
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Jean-Paul Armache

Jean-Paul Armache has been awarded seed funding to study how a coronavirus protein binds to and takes over the human ribosome.

Highly sensitive dopamine detector uses 2D materials
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illustration of a dopamine detector

A new supersensitive dopamine detector can help in the early diagnosis of several disorders that result in too much or too little dopamine.

Researchers to examine relation of dysfunctional brain hubs to mental disorders
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