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Letter: For the record – 30 March 2019

Published 27 March 2019

• A spacecraft that slingshots around Jupiter gains energy by slowing the planet in its orbit (16 March, p 10).

• The SPF rating of standard sunscreen is primarily a measure of protection against UVB rays (16 March, p 28).

• The “Düsseldorf patient” seems to be cleared of reproducing HIV virus, though a few tests gave positive signals. These may be false positives, non-infectious virus fragments, or whole virus that couldn’t reproduce because of a lack of susceptible immune cells (9 March, p 12).

Issue no. 3223 published 30 March 2019

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