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RNAs at fever pitch

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Some normally innocuous bacteria can turn into serious pathogens. It seems that one such species, Neisseria meningitidis, uses three RNA-based thermosensors to escape the immune response of its human host. See Letter p.237

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Figure 1: RNA thermometers team up.

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  1. *This article and the paper under discussion were published online on 25 September 2013.

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