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Worse Than COVID? The Tasmanian Devil’s Contagious Cancer

Thinking About Thanksgiving? A Reminder of What COVID-19 Can Do To A Human Body

Genetic Clues in the Goop of a COVID Swab

Can Some Antibodies Worsen COVID-19? The Odd Situation of Enhancement

A Drug Trio for COVID-19: Precedents in Cystic Fibrosis, HIV/AIDS, and Hepatitis C

A Conversation with CRISPR-Cas9 Inventors Charpentier and Doudna

Long-Awaited Drug for Alkaptonuria (AKU), the First“Inborn Error,” On the Way to Approval in Europe

5 COVID-19 Updates: Cats, Kids, Seniors, Blood, and an Old Vaccine

A Cloned Przewalski’s Horse Evokes Memories of the Catskill Game Farm

How the Various COVID Vaccines Work

Extinction of the Woolly Rhino: Ancient Genomes Point to Climate Change, not Overhunting

Progress and a Setback in Treating Rare Genetic Diseases: Hemophilia A, CLN1, SMA, and DMD

How COVID-19 Arose and Amplified Along the Meat Supply Chain

She Had Her Own Mutation, Sequencing Led to a Treatment and Major Genetic Discovery – Then She Died of COVID

COVID Genomes Paint Portrait of an Evolving Pathogen

Can Past Coronavirus Infection Protect Against COVID-19? Hints from Smallpox Vaccine

A Tale of Two Clinical Trials: Gene Therapy for a Rare Disease and a Vaccine for COVID-19

Gastruloids Stand In for Early Human Embryos

Two Views of Leeches, A Century Apart

How an Antibody Cocktail Against COVID-19 Channels the 3 Stooges– But is a Great Idea

Protests and the Pandemic: Will COVID-19 Resurge?

Dr. Fauci Optimistic About COVID-19 Vaccine Progress

The Fallacy of the“Make It So” Mentality to Rush a COVID-19 Vaccine

Microbiome Analysis of Ancient Feces

Will the COVID-19 Pandemic End Like War of the Worlds or Logan’s Run?

Meet the Cammalleri Sisters: How Did They Live to Be 106 and 113?

Rare Disease Families Cope With COVID

A Tribute to Max Randell, Gene Therapy Pioneer

Dr. Fauci Evokes Memories of Past Rock Star Scientists

A Brief History of Plagues and Pandemics: From the Black Death to COVID-19

Drugs to Treat Novel Coronavirus Part 2: Rx for Restraint

Can Existing Drugs Treat COVID-19? From Viagra to Thalidomide to Cough Syrup

Viruses for the Good: Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease

Rare Disease in TV Series: Stranger Things, House, Call the Midwife

Vaccine Memories: From Polio to Autism