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Viewpoint: Anti-vax conspiracy propaganda movement aiming to derail successful rollout of coronavirus vaccines
This war could pit public health officials and politicians against an anti-vaccination movement that floods social media with misinformation, conspiracy ...
How Sweden avoided a lockdown and a large coronavirus outbreak
Trust is high in Sweden — in government, institutions and fellow Swedes. When the government defied conventional wisdom and refused ...
First we need a coronavirus vaccine—Then figure out how to produce 300 million doses
In the midst of national shortages of testing swabs and protective gear, some medical suppliers and health policy experts are ...
‘Plandemic’ viral video gives anti-vaccination conspiracy movement a booster shot
In a video posted to YouTube on [May 4], a woman animatedly described an unsubstantiated secret plot by global elites ...
‘Money being made from people’s suffering’: Selling blood samples from coronavirus survivors
Some biotech companies are cashing in on the race to produce coronavirus antibody tests, taking blood samples from people who ...
Regulation and anti-GMO activism: Roadblocks on the way to saving the American chestnut tree
In traditional plant breeding .... farmers .... cross varieties with desired traits .... and select promising mixtures for sought-after qualities ...
Emergency FDA authorization of remdesivir expected after experimental coronavirus drug shows promise in trial
The F.D.A. plans to announce ... an emergency use authorization for remdesivir, an experimental antiviral drug that is being tested ...
Coronavirus antibody tests: Can they return us to ‘normal’?
When will life return to normal, or at least a new normal? A major answer to the question of when ...
Cytokine storms: How your own body fights against you during a coronavirus infection
When the body first encounters a virus or a bacterium, the immune system ramps up and begins to fight the ...
New York’s coronavirus outbreak traced to travelers who arrived from Europe in February before travel ban was imposed
New research indicates that the coronavirus began to circulate in the New York area by mid-February, weeks before the first ...
Fast carbs: Do the products of modern agriculture short circuit your biology to make you fat and diabetic?
In recent weeks, foods of all kinds have flown off the shelves at grocery stores as Americans stocked up to ...
What is it about the coronavirus genome that makes it so dangerous?
In January, scientists deciphered a piece of very bad news: the genome of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. The ...
Wave of coronavirus conspiracies might be ‘just as dangerous for societies as the outbreak itself’
The coronavirus has given rise to a flood of conspiracy theories, disinformation and propaganda, eroding public trust and undermining health ...
Italy considers a return to normal—for people with the ‘right’ coronavirus antibodies
There is a growing sense in Italy that the worst may have passed. ... That glimmer of hope has turned ...
FDA approves rapid blood test for coronavirus antibodies. Could help determine who has ‘some’ immunity.
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a new test for coronavirus antibodies, the first for use in the ...
How America’s obesity epidemic could exacerbate deadly impact of coronavirus
With businesses facing bankruptcy, schools closed and sports events canceled, President Trump and others have now asked: Is the cure ...
Timing ‘couldn’t have been worse’: Why travel restrictions didn’t prevent a coronavirus pandemic
The most extensive travel restrictions to stop an outbreak in human history haven’t been enough. We analyzed the movements of ...
Matching coronavirus containment success of Taiwan and South Korea requires ‘extraordinary levels of trust and cooperation from citizens’
Terrifying though the coronavirus may be, it can be turned back. China, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan have demonstrated that, ...
Are coronavirus containment efforts more damaging ‘than the direct toll of the virus itself’?
I am deeply concerned that the social, economic and public health consequences of this near total meltdown of normal life ...
Worst case scenario for coronavirus: 200,000 to 1.7 million US deaths
Officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and epidemic experts from universities around the world conferred last ...
Coronavirus outbreak is stressing supply chains, but America isn’t running out of food
The aisles and aisles of empty store shelves give the appearance that the United States, improbably and alarmingly, is running ...
After years of studying Huntington’s, pioneering researcher reveals that she has the disease
Year after year for two decades, Nancy Wexler led medical teams into remote villages in Venezuela, where huge extended families ...
Vegan burgers: How Impossible Foods, Beyond Meat mimic the texture, appearance and flavor of beef
Texture, appearance and flavor: These are the elements of meat that the new vegan alternatives from Impossible Foods and Beyond ...
Future of farming: How next-generation robots breed heartier crops and optimize yields
In a research field off Highway 54 last autumn, corn stalks shimmered in rows 40-feet deep. Girish Chowdhary, an agricultural ...
Diet wars: Heavy meat consumption carries ‘small but increased’ cardiovascular disease risk, study finds
[In October 2019], the Annals of Internal Medicine published a controversial report that encouraged people not to worry about the ...
Bizarre deep sea microbe could help explain origins of ‘animals, plants, fungi and humans’
Two billion years ago, simple cells gave rise to far more complex cells. Biologists have struggled for decades to learn ...
Teenager’s experimental gene therapy treatment could change the lives of millions of sickle cell patients worldwide
Meet Helen Obando, a shy 16-year-old who likes to dance when her body isn’t ravaged by the debilitating symptoms of ...
We have the power to wipe out mosquitoes and malaria—but is that a good idea?
Gene drives have yet to be tested outside the lab, and even the most developed project to date — the ...
