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More vaccine bashing

Today the New York Times is complaining about two vaccines against human papillomaviruses, Gardasil from Merck and Cevarix from GlaxoSmithKline. These vaccines were introduced two years ago to prevent infections that are associated with cervical cancer.  The article complains that ‘cervical cancer has gone from obscure killer confined mostly to poor nations to the West’s …

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Titer is not a verb

Today I received an email from Clontech Laboratories with the subject line “Titer your virus in under four hours!”.  I have little faith in a company that cannot compose a grammatically correct email. Titer is a unit of concentration. It is not a verb, and therefore it is incorrect to write ‘titer your virus’. You …

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