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Don’t ignore potential microbial causes of Alzheimer’s and other chronic diseases, researchers say

04.05.2023

SAN FRANCISCO — On a day when pharma giant Eli Lilly announced positive results from a clinical trial of an Alzheimer’s drug that clears knotty clumps of protein from the …

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First Opinion

Opinion: In a world of synthetic biology, publishing virus DNA sequences may mean perishing

06.04.2023

The wholly synthetic mRNA vaccines for Covid-19 saved nearly 20 million lives in just their first year of use, according to data published in 2022 by The Lancet. That success …

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Health / In the Lab

Strong new evidence suggests a virus triggers multiple sclerosis

13.01.2022

If you were to ask any of the 1 million Americans living with multiple sclerosis, they’d probably say their disease started with changes so small they almost didn’t notice them: …

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Coronavirus / In the Lab

A lucky few seem ‘resistant’ to Covid-19. Scientists want to know why

23.08.2021

Her husband collapsed just before reaching the top of the stairs in their small one-bedroom house in São Paulo, Brazil. Frantic, Thais Andrade grabbed the portable pulse oximeter she had …

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Coronavirus / Health

Viral evolution 101: Why the coronavirus has changed as it has, and what it means going forward

20.08.2021

It’s impossible to say how the coronavirus will continue to evolve. Those changes, after all, are a result of random mutations. But there are some fundamental principles that explain why …

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Coronavirus / Health

A pandemic upside: The flu virus became less diverse, simplifying the task of making flu shots

02.06.2021

In the eight years leading up to the Covid-19 pandemic, one of the subtypes of influenza A viruses started acting bizarrely. Flu viruses continuously evolve, to evade the immune defenses …

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