Lockdowns moved the burden of COVID from the at-risk elderly to the less-at-risk young. Does this sacrifice merit compensation?
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Artificial intelligence can forecast the behavior of viruses and quickly make vaccines to thwart them.
Sixty years later, will anybody have heard of COVID?
AI was key to making Moderna’s COVID mRNA vaccine. Its role in mRNA therapeutics will rapidly grow in the coming years.
Concluding that Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest was caused by the COVID vaccine requires accepting highly improbable leaps of logic.
The patron saint of calling BS, Harry Frankfurt, died watching his philosophy become more urgent than ever.
The study was small and didn’t include a placebo group, but there is reason to believe that the drugs really do work.
Ethicist and doctor Simon Whitney argues that society’s overly cautious approach to medical research is blocking breakthroughs.
Viruses, it turns out, can block one another and take turns to dominate.
A new online religion is spreading misinformation and phony products.
People with higher immune resilience live longer, resist diseases, and are more likely to survive diseases when they do develop.
The antibodies elicited by the “S2 vaccine” not only neutralize COVID’s multiple strains but also coronaviruses that cause the common cold.
Tardigrades can completely dehydrate and later rehydrate themselves, a survival trick that scientists are harnessing to preserve medicines in hot temperatures.
From COVID and cancer vaccines to a steady drop in the number of people living in extreme poverty, there are reasons for optimism in 2023.
It’s simple to make, easy to use, and should work against any variant.
Undeterred by years of failure, Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman proved that mRNA is the future of vaccines.
The young and healthy were not just as likely to die as the old and frail, according to a new analysis.
Americans without friends have increased 400% in recent years. Here’s why.
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Three years after the pandemic began, we still don’t know the origin of COVID. A strange lack of curiosity has stifled the debate.
How to separate the reality from the conspiracy theory.
The spray uses snippets of DNA to gum up virus replication.
It was a particularly good year for biotech and medical technology. There were also notable advances in energy.
If you believe that you’re perfect, then somebody else must be responsible for your failures.
Long-term research efforts have revealed alarming mental health trends.
Our state of extreme social interconnectedness has rapidly accelerated the rollercoaster pace at which societal confidence may collapse.
Social media has made yelling past each other all the easier.
The state of global democracy is relatively strong — but there are clear signs of recent erosion.
Once activated, the CRISPR-Cas12a2 system goes on a rampage, chopping up DNA and RNA indiscriminately, causing cell death.
Recent changes have affected the design and development of instructor-led training. Read on to find out how.