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Antibody Cocktails Against Future COVID Variants, Thanks to Global Consortium CoVIC

Does a Vitamin Deficiency in the Brain Lie Behind Huntington’s Disease?

How the Tabby Got Its Stripes

New COVID Vaccines and More: A Perusal of ClinicalTrials.gov

The Tomorrow War on Amazon Prime Echoes COVID: Science from the Past Saves Humanity’s Future

New Target for Treating Huntington’s Disease: Controlling Runaway DNA Repair

Returning to Live Music and How a Tiny Mutation Sent Delta All Over the World

Cats’ Genomes Make Them Good Models for Human Disease

Scary Variants and Vaccine Hesitancy Set Up a Perfect Storm– for the Virus

Katla on Netflix: Volcanoes, Glaciers, and Meteorites, Oh My!

Looking Into a COVID Lung Using Spatial Transcriptomics

Hulu’s False Positive Misses the Mark in Evoking Rosemary’s Baby

A Virus Envisions a Post Pandemic US

Tracing the Origins of Medical Media Hype: Failing to Mention Mice

Revising a Human Genetics Textbook and Countering Vaccine Hesitancy

The Treatabolome Will Shorten Diagnostic Odysseys for Rare Diseases

How Viral Variants Arise

The H5N8 Bird Flu and Why We Should Pay Attention

Wishbone Day Raises Awareness of Osteogenesis Imperfecta

Genomics to the Rescue for Sumatran Rhinos

Expand Rapid Testing to Help Counter COVID Variant Spread, Says Harvard Epidemiologist Michael Mina

3 Possible Origins of COVID: Lab Escapee, Evolution, or Mutator Genes?

Huntington’s Disease: 2 Steps Backward, 1 Step Forward

Alzheimer’s Treatments in the Pipeline and the False Promise of Prevagen: Distinguishing Hope from Hype

Science Writing in the Age of COVID-19

On the Anniversary of the Pandemic, Considering the Bioweapon Hypothesis

Is COVID Optimism Finally Overtaking Pessimism? Harvard Experts Weigh In

Rare Disease Day 2021: Gene Therapy Ups and Downs, Again

DNA Study Adds Branch to North American Mammoth Family Tree

How My“Fruit Fly Love Story” Presaged The Rise of COVID-19 Viral Variants

Mutants Come to Saratoga: COVID New Variants Explained

What Do Non-identical Identical Twins Have to do with COVID-19? Mutation!

Ignoring Pandemic Warnings and Links to my 54 COVID Articles

The First COVID-19 Vaccines: What’s mRNA Got To Do With It?

Why Do Males Fare Worse With COVID-19? A Clue From Calico Cats

Dr. Paul Offit Talks COVID Vaccines, With JAMA’S Howard Bauchner

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

Vaccine Memories: From Polio to Autism