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The Scientist - Bioterrorist battles
Published: 1 January 2012
A Swiss-based firm may have a back-door way to thwart a bioterrorist attack鈥攂y fighting the flu.
Even if all the human-flu and animal-Ebola results are great, there is still the lingering question about the basic tenet of Evolva鈥檚 approach: whether those results will translate into a preventive for Ebola in humans.
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