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A new playbook for cancer prevention in Africa is helping scientists uncover hidden links between everyday infections and cancer. Wits researchers have developed a ‘microbial watchlist’—a way of ...

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Although she's not an entomologist, Maggie Stanislawski, Ph.D., spends hours a day studying bugs. The assistant professor of biomedical informatics specializes in the gut microbiome, an environment ...

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Probiotic supplements aren't regulated and contain a wide spectrum of bacterial species. Here's some reasons why you haven't ...

The CDC is no longer recommending that all adolescents and teens get vaccinated for potentially fatal bacterial meningitis, ...

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