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'The Boy Mozart', by an unknown artist (1763)
...that composer
Mozart
(pictured)
learned
card tricks
and
fencing
while
recovering from smallpox
?
...that the
anabolic steroid
oxandrolone
was granted
orphan drug
status in treatment of
alcoholic hepatitis
,
Turner syndrome
and
HIV
wasting
syndrome?
...that
Agile Mangabeys
are known to contract the
T-cell
leukemia
virus
, similar to the leukemia virus that infects humans?
...that in a 1997 Alaskan expedition, pathologist
Johan Hultin
retrieved samples of the
1918 influenza virus
from the lungs of flu victims preserved by
permafrost
?
...that
LdMNPV
's
EGT gene is responsible for the infected larvae's 'zombie-like' behavior?
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