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Eradication victory

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Tom Ingram
As of Jan. 13, India had not had a case of polio in a year. The country was a major centre of polio infection as recently as 2009, when its 741 cases accounted for...
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Moon-mapping

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Tom Ingram
NASA’s latest Discovery mission has entered orbit around the moon. The Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral on Sept. 10, 2011, marking the start of a nine-month cycle during...
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Conservation conversation

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Tom Ingram
A draft has been released of a new plan to conserve boreal woodland caribou in eastern Manitoba, and the public has been invited to weigh-in durring a 90-day comment period. The 61-page plan outlines...
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‘It’s over’

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Tom Ingram
A controversial 2009 paper that linked a mouse retrovirus to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) has been through dozens of criticisms and a partial retraction. Now, after a nine-lab study showed that the retrovirus could...
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Efficient altruism

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Tom Ingram
The other day I was walking around campus when I passed a pink fire truck. It was, of course, related to some kind of breast cancer fundraiser. For some reason, this got me thinking,...
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Tenofovir troubles

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Tom Ingram
Just weeks after research on tenofovir gel, a preventative HIV treatment for women, won a prize from the African Academy of Sciences — as reported in the Manitoban — a follow-up study has been...
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Hostile environment

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Tom Ingram
Two years after a series of controversial emails between climate scientists were released by an anonymous source, a second set of more than 5,000 messages has surfaced. The emails, which some have claimed as...
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