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Researchers grew a working tear gland in the lab that they say can help them study disease and perhaps someday might be used as a transplant.
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By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers have managed to keep mice embryos alive inside an artificial womb for as long as day 12, half of the animal's gestation period.
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By Victor Tangermann

China has officially approved its latest COVID-19 vaccine, its fifth to be exact. And it has one special ingredient: ovary cells from hamsters.
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By Victor Tangermann

A woman in south Florida who was recently vaccinated against COVID-19 vaccine while pregnant may have passed on her COVID antibodies to her newborn baby.
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By Victor Tangermann

Medical residents are now under investigation for posting pictures of removed organs on Instagram as if they were game show hosts.
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By Dan Robitzski

COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer AstraZeneca went on the defensive after countries halted the rollout of its vaccine over fears it may cause blood clots.
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By Victor Tangermann

Victor Smith, a 91-year-old man from Ohio, accidentally got two shots of the COVID vaccine in a single day, local NBC-affiliated news station WLWT5 reports.
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By Victor Tangermann

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced today that Americans who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 can gather in small numbers indoors.
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By Victor Tangermann

Eight gorillas at the San Diego Zoo have tested positive for COVID-19, the Associated Press reports, the first known case amount such primates in the US.
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By Tony Ho Tran

There are several major coronavirus variants spreading throughout the world. Here's what you should know about the most important ones.
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By Dan Robitzski

International travelers have had to endure something rather humiliating upon entering China at the airport: anal swab tests for COVID-19 as Reuters reports.
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By Victor Tangermann

Doctors are identifying patients who were simultaneously infected by multiple coronavirus variants, raising concerns about new mutations.
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By Dan Robitzski

The CDC updated its official recommendations for surviving a zombie apocalypse. Experts say it's actually a valuable resource.
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By Dan Robitzski

Experts expected a new baby boom during the COVID-19 era, but the birth rate dropped instead. Experts say that this is a growing crisis for the country.
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By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have turned their focus on treating the long-term effects of COVID-19 — including a long term loss of taste and smell.
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By Victor Tangermann

Vaccination passports could allow immunized people to travel or re-enter society, but many people in already-vulnerable groups would be excluded.
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By Dan Robitzski

Plastic surgeon Scott Green signed into a courtroom Zoom proceeding to fight a traffic violation while he was operating on a patient.
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By Dan Robitzski

Health officials in the UK are trying to get in touch with an individual who was infected with a new variant of the virus that originated in Brazil.
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By Victor Tangermann

A team at Carnegie Mellon University has released an app that they say can determine whether you likely have COVID-19 — just by listening to your voice.
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By Tony Ho Tran

Moderna has announced it has created the first batch its new COVID-19 vaccine that protects people against a deadly new variant from South Africa.
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By Victor Tangermann

Since they peaked in the middle of January, the number of new daily coronavirus infections deaths has been in consistent decline.
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By Dan Robitzski

A new variant of the coronavirus is quickly becoming the dominant strain in California, worrying experts, as the Los Angeles Times reports.
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By Victor Tangermann

Top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci put the United States' failure to reign in the virus into a global perspective during a Monday interview on ABC.
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By Victor Tangermann

A very small study found that some patients who recover from the coronavirus could face long-term lung damage and reduced lung capacity.
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By Tony Ho Tran

Neuroscientists found that crows have conscious and subjective experiences, challenging assumptions about animal intelligence and human superiority.ogical constraints
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By Tony Ho Tran

A COVID-19 reserve held back intended to be used as second booster shots by the Trump administration doesn't actually exist, the Washington Post reports.
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By Tony Ho Tran

New coronavirus infections in the United States and around the world dropped by a significant number over the previous week.
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By Dan Robitzski

According to a new report, the COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by Pfizer and BioNTech is 93 percent effective after just one out of two doses.
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By Victor Tangermann

New York just sued Amazon over its failure to protect warehouse workers from the coronavirus and for punishing anyone who spoke out.
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By Dan Robitzski

A researcher has discovered "pretty clear" evidence of a new hybrid version of the coronavirus that resulted from two variants combining their genomes.
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By Victor Tangermann

In a Tuesday statement, the White House warned that new Ebola outbreaks in Africa need our attention now — otherwise we'd risk "catastrophic consequences."
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By Victor Tangermann

Guinea declared that it's facing a new Ebola epidemic on Sunday after seven people caught the infectious disease and three died.
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By Dan Robitzski

Japanese researchers transplanted sheets containing heart muscle cells derived from stem cells onto a patient's damaged heart for the first time.
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By Tony Ho Tran

Sister André, the world's second oldest person, fended off the coronavirus — and celebrated with champagne and a delicious feast.
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By Tony Ho Tran

In a chat with Derek Muller's popular YouTube channel Veritasium, Bill Gates said that the world is facing two big threats: climate change and bioterrorism.
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By Victor Tangermann

The Democratic Republic of Congo is now staring down its 12th Ebola outbreak just three months after the previous one ended.
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By Dan Robitzski

According to CDC, people who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 can skip quarantine if they are exposed to somebody who tested positive
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By Victor Tangermann

World Health Organization investigators found evidence that the coronavirus outbreak in China may have started as early as October 2019.
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By Dan Robitzski

Texas doctor Hasan Gokal was fired for giving out ten COVID-19 vaccine shots with only six hours remaining until the vial would have expired.
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By Victor Tangermann

The highly-infectious B.1.1.7 variant of the coronavirus could have mutated entirely within one patient, scienitsts suspect.
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By Dan Robitzski

A team sent by the World Health Organization to investigate the origins of COVID-19 announced that it's "extremely unlikely" that the virus came from a lab.
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By Victor Tangermann

U.S. Representative Ron Wright died from the coronavirus on Sunday, becoming the first sitting Congressperson to die of COVID-19.
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By Dan Robitzski

100 children in the UK have been hospitalized with pediatric inflammatory multi-system syndrome a week, a rare and dangerous post-COVID-19 disease.
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By Victor Tangermann

A large group of diners attacked a Chili's hostess because the restaurant wouldn't seat them all at the same table during the pandemic.
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By Dan Robitzski

A boy in Florida died from the coronavirus just hours after his first symptoms began. His family hope it reminds others that anyone can catch the disease.
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By Dan Robitzski

IBM developed an algorithm that can predict who might develop Alzheimer's disease by spotting changes in their writing style.
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By Dan Robitzski

A trio of scientists say that a new field of research called longevity medicine is emerging and that powerful AI is essentially leading the way.
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By Dan Robitzski

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By Dan Robitzski

A facility that bottles the AstraZeneca coronavirus into glass vials was temporarily on lockdown today after a suspicious package arrived.
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By Dan Robitzski

Health officials in China are testing for COVID-19 with anal swabs, citing limited evidence that the virus lingers in the digestive tract.
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By Dan Robitzski

President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday that he's committed to vaccinating 300 million Americans by the end of summer, an extremely ambitious timeline.
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By Victor Tangermann

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who once said religious amulets in his wallet would block the coronavirus, tested positive for COVID-19.
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By Dan Robitzski

A Canadian millionaire couple chose to skip the line and fly out to a remote Indigenous community to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
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By Victor Tangermann

Chemicals like phthalates seem to reduce the quantity and quality of men's sperm, and the problem is compounding over generations.
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By Dan Robitzski

Dr. Anthony Fauci was subjected to death threats for almost the entire duration of the pandemic, including an anthrax scare in the mail.
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By Dan Robitzski

The nation's top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci believes we are weeks away from the approval of a single dose vaccine for COVID-19.
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By Victor Tangermann

In a national address on Friday, Biden said that the US is "expected to reach well over 600,000" coronavirus deaths. "We're in a national emergency."
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By Victor Tangermann

According to UK experts, the fast spreading B117 variant of the coronavirus may increase the death rate by 30 to 40 percent.
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By Victor Tangermann

Top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci told CNN that Trump's bungled response to the COVID-19 pandemic "very likely" cost American lives.
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By Victor Tangermann

Now Trump is out, meaning Fauci is in a position many people dream about: being able to publicly shred their former boss at a televised press briefing.
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By Jon Christian

In a number of new executive orders, president Joe Biden has called on Americans to wear masks in public for the next 100 days.
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By Victor Tangermann

A COVID-19 reserve held back intended to be used as second booster shots by the Trump administration doesn't actually exist, the Washington Post reports.
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By Victor Tangermann

The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office is operated at nearly double its usual capacity, and officials are scrambling to find new places to store bodies.
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By Dan Robitzski

Scientists in Ohio found two new strains of the coronavirus, both of which seem to be more infectious than the dominant strain.
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By Dan Robitzski