This Week in PNAS: May 16, 2017

May 16, 2017

In the early, online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from Iowa State University describe insights from a functional genomic study on the effects of anti-parasitic drugs called anthelmintics on Brugia malayi, a nematode worm that causes elephantiasis.

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The Scan

Keep Them or Not?

NPR says the explosion and fire earlier this week at a Russian lab that stores dangerous pathogens revives the question of whether such samples should be kept.

Dunno Whose It Is

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