The shape of things to come
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Billions of malformed proteins are churned out through the night in a secure lab in Texas and these mass produced distorted molecules are at the heart of research into a family of diseases that destroy the brain. The diseases linked to infectious prions are called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, or TSEs because of the spongy appearance they give the brain and most TSEs are species-specific.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2006
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Painkiller verdict shows mistrust of Merck
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A jury in Angleton, Texas, ordered Merck, a pharmaceutical firm, to pay $253 million to Carol Ernst, whose husband, Robert Ernst died after taking the painkilling drug Vioxx on 19 August 2005. However, the company is likely to challenge the decision to go to trial in the first place and make a series of legal appeals based on evidence gathered about Vioxx's side effects.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2005
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Can we score the millennium goals?
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World leaders are gathering in New York in September 2005 to discuss the future of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals but critics are warning that many of the targets cannot be evaluated scientifically. Analysts state that without drastic revision, the targets risk being meaningless since the tools required to measure them are not in place.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2005
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