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"Plasmodium is not a simple organism like a bacterium or virus, " says Dr Mohammed Shahabuddin, at the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a co-author on the study published in the journal Science.
BBC: Infected flies boost malaria hope
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As David Rubin of the University of California, Berkeley, lead author on the study, told the AAS meeting, "for a sense of brightness, this supernova is about as bright as a firefly viewed from 3, 000 miles away".
BBC: Supernova 'Mingus' could shed light on dark energy
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But it's not clear if the performance lapses seen in the study would be meaningful in real-world operating rooms, says surgeon Emily Boyle, the lead author of the study and a researcher at the Royal College of Surgeons, in Dublin, Ireland.
CNN: Surgeons' 'bottle-to-scalpel' time affects errors