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Liam Shaw

Blackburn
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Liam Shaw | Plague Ships

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By Liam Shaw
| London Review of Books
Cruise ships are sometimes called floating cities. Icon of the Seas, with a maximum capacity of ten thousand people (passengers and crew), could accommodate most of the population of the city of Wells in Somerset. Most cruise ships are more like small if extraordinarily wealthy towns. And the MV Hondius, with 175 people from more than twenty countries on board when it departed from Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego on 1 April, was probably the most diverse village in the world.
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Bring me bimagrumab

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By Liam Shaw
| London Review of Books
In​ 1889 Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard, a 72-year-old professor at the Collège de France, wrote a letter to the Lancet in which he reported the effects of injecting himself with guinea pig semen. The results were remarkable. He could once more lift heavy weights, no longer had to hold the banister when going down the stairs and his youthful vigour had returned in other areas too.
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Un pericoloso miracolo

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By Liam Shaw
| illibraio.it
Nel gelo eterno della regione del Klondike, nel Canada nord-occidentale, il permafrost custodisce un segreto sconcertante: alcuni batteri intrappolati e conservati nel ghiaccio possedevano, già trentamila anni fa, geni resistenti ad antibiotici moderni come la vancomicina. Ma com’è possibile che batteri così antichi fossero immuni a un antibiotico reso disponibile sul mercato solo a partire dagli anni Cinquanta?
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