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Infectious Disease
Undeterred by years of failure, Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman proved that mRNA is the future of vaccines.
CRISPR, stem cells, and even cancer drugs are helping shape an AIDS-free future.
Over a third are worried that vaccines can cause "canine autism."
Sixty years later, will anybody have heard of COVID?
Ethicist and doctor Simon Whitney argues that society's overly cautious approach to medical research is blocking breakthroughs.
It is generally ineffective, occasionally poisonous, and driving numerous species to the brink of extinction.
Bram Stoker's mother survived a terrible cholera outbreak and recounted the ghastly scenes to her son years later.
And why you, a non-expert, should absolutely not consider "explaining what you know" to an actual expert in the field.
Some scientists think we should allow our bodies to more harmlessly live with pathogens until they’re cleared from our systems.
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
The pandemic and the Great Resignation fed into a perfect storm of inflation — and some restaurateurs cleaned up.
A panel of healthcare professionals much preferred responses that came from the chatbot in a recent study.
As a physician, John Pringle helped reinvent hygiene; as a husband, he destroyed a woman’s life with his abuse.
To protect yourself, you need an antifungal rather than an amulet.
Marburg virus, like its cousin Ebola, causes severe disease, with fatality rates ranging from 22% to 90%.
Gum disease begins in the mouth but spreads to the joints. Rheumatoid arthritis is just one of several diseases linked to poor oral health.
"Rational vaccinology" could lead to effective cancer vaccines.
From the bedside to the lab bench, here’s how laboratory testing works.
The pathogen typically kills more than 90% of people it infects.
Disease kills off 40% of farmed catfish. This gene protects them.
Viruses, it turns out, can block one another and take turns to dominate.
Once activated, the CRISPR-Cas12a2 system goes on a rampage, chopping up DNA and RNA indiscriminately, causing cell death.
The vaccine provided protection for mouse and ferret models.
People with shingles have an approximately 80% higher risk of stroke than those without the disease.
Concluding that Damar Hamlin's cardiac arrest was caused by the COVID vaccine requires accepting highly improbable leaps of logic.
It was a particularly good year for biotech and medical technology. There were also notable advances in energy.
A new drug inhibits a human enzyme that coronaviruses hijack in order to replicate.
Toxoplasmosis, which results from a chance encounter with a cougar and the parasite it carries, can push a wolf to seek alpha status.