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In A Nutshell Researchers used a machine learning model to rank all 50 U.S. states and Washington, D.C. by socioeconomic vulnerability to flu-like illness, finding wide regional variation in risk.

This important study analyzed the impact of amino acid homorepeats on protein expression and solubility in yeast and E. coli. The authors provided convincing evidence that hydrophobic and positively ...