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Pneumonia vaccine for newborns

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Environmental Sentinels

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Microscale Life Sciences

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Energy from Waste

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Comparative genomics

New tools answer big questions
The Cheap Genome

Low cost DNA sequencing technologies
Higher Efficiency Solar Technology

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Conquering Cancer

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Rapid Detection of Radiation Exposure

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The Best Defense

Safeguarding public health from nerve toxins

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Tobacco plant-made therapeutic thwarts West Nile virus

A new therapeutic made from tobacco plants has been shown to arrest West Nile virus infection, according to a new study by Arizona State University scientist Qiang Chen and his colleagues.

Chen, a researcher at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute and professor in the Polytechnic Campus' College of Technology and Innovation, is the first to demonstrate a plant-derived treatment to successfully combat West Nile virus after exposure and infection. The research appears in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (advanced online edition).