Ideas about the transmission of disease have long formed the core of modern biology and medicine. Heredity and Infection examines their development over the las

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Infectious diseases are commonly regarded as a distinct category, with different causes and patterns than chronic or genetic disease. But in fact there are many

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Here is a complete history of Thalassaemia, the most common type of genetic disorder in the human population, and one of the first whose genetic basis was estab