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Los Angeles, California - luetongue disease is a viral infection that has killed approximately 2 million cattle in Europe over the past two decades. A new study has revealed the atomic structure of the Bluetongue virus, including the means by which it infects healthy host cells. Scientists hope to use this information to aid in the creation of vaccines and drug treatments for bluetongue disease.
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Berkeley, California - Experts from around the world gathered recently at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., for an international summit on the science, ethics and governance of human gene-editing research. The summit was prompted by new technologies, such as CRISPR-Cas9, that make it easier and cheaper to create permanent, hereditary changes in the human genome.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - In 2010, a Canadian company called D-Wave announced that it had begun production of what it called the world’s first commercial quantum computer, which was based on theoretical work done at MIT. Quantum computers promise to solve some problems significantly faster than classical computers - and in at least one case, exponentially faster. In 2013, a consortium including Google and NASA bought one of D-Wave’s machines.
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Chicago, Illinois - More consumers opted to take advantage of big holiday deals on just one of the big retail days this year, rather than venturing out to stores on both Thanksgiving and Black Friday (those who shopped both declined from 46 percent in 2014, to 39 percent this year).
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Ann Arbor, Michigan - By studying videos from high-stakes court cases, University of Michigan researchers are building unique lie-detecting software based on real-world data.
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Annapolis, Maryland - Delegates from more than 40 countries across Africa, Europe and the Americas attended the Gulf of Guinea Maritime Security Dialogue 2015 at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis.
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