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A team led by Ó³»­´«Ã½ researchers Christina Cuomo, Diego Martinez, Sharadha Sakthikumar, and Richard Bennett and Matthew Hirakawa at Brown University sequenced and phenotypically profiled 21 different isolates of the fungus Candida albicans. , which was published in the journal Genome Research, found extensive genetic and phenotypic diversity across the species and identified a natural mutation in the fungus that can affect whether it will live peacefully in the human gut or become pathogenic.

This week in the journal Nature, Ó³»­´«Ã½ scientists Nathan Yozwiak, Stephen Schaffner, and Pardis Sabeti shared lessons they have learned from sequencing and sharing genomic data on the Ebola virus during the ongoing outbreak in West Africa. In , the researchers called on the international scientific and medical communities to establish new principles for sharing data during epidemics. The also covered the story.

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In 1610, Galileo Galilei set a scientific precedent for the next half millennium: he published his notebooks. , as the publication was officially dubbed, documented Galilei’s observation of several astronomical features, including the orbit of Jupiter’s moons around the planet and the play of light and shadow on the earth’s moon.