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Pfizer vaccine may be effective against all coronavirus variants
Research suggests the jab generates an antibody response against the Brazil, UK and South Africa coronavirus…
The Covid-resistant patients exposing the virus’s weak spots
Some people are unusually resilient to the coronavirus, so scientists are now searching their genes and…
First HIV case was a WWI soldier who caught the virus hunting chimps
EXCLUSIVE: Professor Jacques Pepin at Université de Sherbrooke spoke to MailOnline about his new ‘cut soldier’ hypothesis…
Another New Covid-19 Variant Discovered In L.A. Might Be Vaccine Resistant, Researcher Says; Strain First Identified In Denmark
Two days after the Los Angeles Public Health Department announced that the much-talked-about UK variant of…
Canadian research identifies walking speed as predictor of dementia
The speed at which you walk, or the so-called gait speed, might be a predictor of…
Shock test in boy, 4, could rewrite coronavirus timeline
A university in Italy claims to have found evidence of the first case of coronavirus one…
MDMA-assisted couples therapy investigated in landmark pilot trial
In the late 1970s and early 1980s MDMA was often utilized to help facilitate positive results…
Scientists Devise a Method to Edit Mitochondrial DNA. Here’s How It Works and Why It Matters
There’s a mini second genome inside your cells, but no one could figure out how to…
This chart shows how far we’ve come in fighting cancer
For much of the 20th century, cancer was an unspeakable diagnosis. But the equation has shifted,…
MIT machine learning models find gaps in coverage by Moderna, Pfizer, other Warp Speed COVID-19 vaccines | ZDNet
Vaccine makers need to take into account genetic diversity explicitly in clinical trials or risk missing…
Tennessee baby breaks world record after being born from 27-year-old frozen embryo – Flipboard
A Tennessee baby born from an embryo frozen for 27 years has set a new known…
New CRISPR Cancer Treatment Is Very Promising
I first wrote about CRISPR here in 2017. We are used to medical hyperbole and hype…
Study of 111 ‘exceptional’ cancer patients yields clues to better drug treatments
Mutations and other changes in tumors appear to explain rare success stories Read more at Science…
Chromosomes Don’t Look The Way You Think. We Now Have a 3D Image of The Real Thing
If you’ve ever studied any chemistry or biology, there’s a very good chance you’ve come across…
Pre-symptomatic detection of COVID-19 from smartwatch data
Analysis of physiological and activity data from consumer smartwatches enables real-time detection, often before symptom onset,…
As Obesity Soars, a Mayo Clinic DNA Study May Have Cracked The Cause
Called phenotyping, this bespoke mapping of each human on a subcellular level has allowed Acosta to…
Houston hospital creates new breakthrough breast cancer risk tool
In the medical field, billions of dollars are wasted each year — about $935 billion, but…
The ambitious plan to save more than nine in 10 cancer patients from death
More than 90 per cent of Australians could survive their cancer diagnosis within a decade under…
Viruses have been shown to produce their own energy for the first time
Viruses are supposed to be utterly reliant on the cells they infect but it appears a…