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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?