New York Times
The ’airborne virus scientist’ public health officials turn to to assess dangers from COVID-19 in the air
[Aerosol scientist Dr. Linsey Marr’s] scientific curiosity and her multidisciplinary background have made her one of the world’s leading scientists ...
SCOTUS ruling protecting gay and transgender rights reaffirms sea change in American attitudes, rebuffs Trump Administration policies
When Donald J. Trump was elected president, gay and lesbian leaders warned that their far-reaching victories under Barack Obama — ...
Intriguing links between blood types and COVID-19 outcomes
Why do some people infected with the coronavirus suffer only mild symptoms, while others become deathly ill? Geneticists have been ...
Coronavirus survivors’ plasma offers ‘modest’ recovery boost for infected patients, small study suggests
A small study of patients who were severely ill from the coronavirus hints that treatment with antibodies from recovered patients ...
Nationwide coronavirus antibody test in Israel to assess herd immunity and vulnerability to 2nd wave
Israel, whose aggressive response to the coronavirus has held its fatality rate to a fraction of those of the United ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
EPA rejects New York Times’ allegation that agriculture, chemical industries ‘control’ environmental regulation
The Environmental Protection Agency unloaded [Jan. 14] on the New York Times, accusing the newspaper of “extreme bias” for running ...
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 ...
Age isn’t the thing that saps our memories: ‘Experiencing new things is the best way to keep the mind young’
Twenty-year-olds don’t think, “Oh dear, this must be early-onset Alzheimer’s.” They think, “I’ve got a lot on my plate right ...
Does your DNA leave a unique identifying code? Not always, if you get a bone marrow transplant
Three months after his bone marrow transplant, Chris Long of Reno, Nev., learned that the DNA in his blood had ...
