Sydney Brenner. 13 January 1927—5 April 2019

Sydney Brenner on the Genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans.

Sydney Brenner decided on his lifelong scientific goals on one cold day in April 1953.Hewas a 26-year-old graduate student in Oxford at the time. “What I remember inOxford is being hungry all the time, and cold,” he told me. Crick and Watson had just built the double helix model, and Brenner and a few others took a road trip to Cambridge to see it before it was announced to the rest of the worl...

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Measles — California, January 1–April 18, 2014

Measles is a highly contagious, acute viral illness that can lead to severe complications and death. Even patients who experience uncomplicated acute measles have a small risk for developing a devastating neurologic illness, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, years after their infection. Measles was documented as eliminated (defined as interruption of continuous transmission lasting ≥12 month...

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