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...that
flow cytometry bioinformaticians
use methods from
computational statistics
and
machine learning
to analyse single
cell
data gathered by
flow cytometry
for
cancer
and
HIV/AIDS
research
(output pictured)
?
...that
Sierra Leonean
physician
Aniru Conteh
saved thousands of lives from
Lassa fever
before dying from the disease himself?
...that early in the
history of veterinary medicine in the Philippines
, a
cattle plague
killed 600,000 animals from 1901 to 1902 alone?
...that the isolation of
antibodies
and
flu viruses
from birds on
Tryon Island
, a
coral
cay
off the coast of
Queensland
,
Australia
, led to the development of
antiviral drugs
, such as
oseltamivir
?
...that the
Plague of Athens
devastated ancient
Athens
in
430 BC
, perhaps leading ultimately to the city's defeat in the
Peloponnesian War
?
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