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Hidden creatures by Dino Martins review – the revolting world of parasites

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By Luca Turin
| MSN UK Verified
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Hidden Creatures by Dino Martins review – the revolting world of parasites

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By Luca Turin
| Yahoo Style Canada Verified
Bloodsucking leeches for medical use.Photograph: olga Yastremska/Alamy When Craig Venter, one of the mappers of the human genome, set out on a sailboat cruise to map DNA in seawater all across the globe, he found that a teaspoon of seawater contained on average 50m viruses. While this doesn't sound particularly reassuring, the bad news is mitigated by the fact that most of these are phages that infect marine bacteria and have no interest in us.
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A chance insight into phosgene toxicity

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By Ekin Daplan, Enrique Rodriguez, Nick Lane, Luca Turin
| BioRxiv
Abstract It has long been known that phosgene, a war gas and an industrial reagent, causes intense oxidative stress, but how it does so remains unclear. Here we report an accidental discovery: Electron spin resonance spectroscopy (ESR) of live fruit flies reveals that phosgene exposure results in a distinctive manganese (Ⅱ) hyperfine structure. After exposure to phosgene, every batch of flies consistently displays the Mn (Ⅱ) signal.
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