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A series of visualizations show how the dangers of indoor COVID-19 transmission can be mitigated but not eliminated with masks and ventilation.

Visualization Shows Likelihood of COVID-19 Spread in Bars, Homes, Classrooms

By Dan Robitzski

According to early results, a vaccine for COVID-19 being tested by Oxford University and AstraZeneca is effective in both older adults and young people.

This COVID Vaccine Works For Both Young and Old, Scientists Say in Closed Meeting

By Victor Tangermann

New research concludes that if if 95 percent of Americans would wear a mask, we could prevent nearly 130,000 deaths caused by COVID-19.

If Most Americans Wore a Mask, It’d Save 130,000 Lives

By Victor Tangermann

A placebo-controlled study identified which impacts of microdosing LSD, from improved focus to anxiety, emerge at which dosages.

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Study: Microdosing LSD Improves Mood and Cognition

By Dan Robitzski

UK researchers are preparing for a controversial experiment involving injecting healthy human test subjects with the coronavirus.

Researchers Are Starting to Infect People With COVID on Purpose

By Victor Tangermann

While a popular politically-motivated document calls for the U.S. to focus on herd immunity against COVID-19, but doctors agree that it would be disastrous.

Experts: Herd Immunity Is an Absolutely Terrible Idea, You Idiots

By Dan Robitzski

A woman died after catching the coronavirus, even though she had recovered from COVID-19 months prior. It's the first confirmed death linked to reinfection.

Woman Dies After Catching COVID-19 a Second Time

By Dan Robitzski

A coronavirus patient caught the disease on two separate occasions, and the second time around was even more severe than the first.

Reinfected Patient’s Second Case of COVID-19 Was Even More Severe

By Dan Robitzski

A new colonoscopy robot sounds terrifying, but it might actually make for a smoother ride than having a human doctor steer the endoscope.

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Researchers Built a Powerful Robot Arm to Do Colonoscopies

By Dan Robitzski

As a temporary boost in the fight against COVID-19, a team of U.K. scientists are experimenting with a tuberculosis vaccine from 1921.

Scientists Are Testing a 99-Year-Old Tuberculosis Vaccine on COVID-19

By Dan Robitzski

Research shows that the human species is rapidly evolving: The percent of people with a medial artery in their forearms has grown over the last 150 years.

Humans Are Evolving a New Artery

By Dan Robitzski

Doctors studying the cadavers of people who died from COVID-19 identified traces of the coronavirus in half of their brains.

Doctors Find Coronavirus in Brains of Cadavers

By Dan Robitzski

A team of MIT scientists working on a universal flu vaccine, or a single inoculation that blocks all flu viruses, modeled a successful vaccination method.

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MIT Scientists Making Key Progress on Universal Flu Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

A new hydrogel, when implanted into rats and toads, worked like a bridge between damaged nerves and healed them faster than other techniques.

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Scientists Claim to Invent Hydrogel That Heals Nerve Damage

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are using viruses harvested from common plants to create cancer immunotherapies — and they've already proven to be effective in animal models.

This Strange Plant Virus Could Treat Many Cancers

By Victor Tangermann

Pharamceutical companies have different definitions of success for their COVID-19 vaccines, making it hard to tell if the first vaccine will be the best.

Pharma Companies Never Agreed What Makes a “Successful” COVID-19 Vaccine Trial

By Dan Robitzski

CNBC reports that side effects of several COVID vaccines can include high fever, exhaustion, and headaches. They mostly don't last for more than a day.

COVID Vaccines Can Have Some Nasty Side Effects — But Only For a Day

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists uncovered a series of epigenetic changes that seem to predict late-onset Alzheimer's disease, hinting at the possibility of future treatments.

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Scientists Just Found Something That Happens Before Alzheimer’s Sets In

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists just announced the discovery of two organisms that eats viruses — the first credible finding of that type of creature.

Scientists Discover Organisms That Eat Viruses

By Jon Christian

The World Health Organization and other groups are coordinating a global effort to distribute COVID-19 vaccines. The U.S. refused to help.

US, Russia, China Opt Out of Global Plan to Distribute COVID-19 Vaccines

By Dan Robitzski

When Congress allocated $1 billion to the Pentagon to shore up medical supplies, it instead funneled the money to military contractors.

The US Military Used Emergency Coronavirus Money to Buy Weapons

By Dan Robitzski

In a new paper in the journal Science, a team of scientists has a blunt request: please stop injecting yourselves with homebrewed COVID vaccines.

Professors: We Are Begging You to Stop Injecting Yourselves With Homebrewed COVID Vaccines

By Jon Christian

Thousands of people in northwest China have caught a bacterial disease after a leak caused an outbreak at a biopharmaceutical last year, CNN reports.

Thousands Infected by Bacteria After Leak at Chinese Pharmaceutical Factory

By Victor Tangermann

Numerous experts are saying that a scientific paper claiming COVID is a bioweapon made elementary errors and relies on a shaky interpretation of evidence.

Scientists Slam Dubious Research Claiming COVID Is a Bioweapon

By Jon Christian

In a new interview, Gates says he's still optimistic that a vaccine is on the way. But it's unlikely, he said, that there'll be one by the end of the year.

Bill Gates: Sorry, But It’s Unlikely There’ll Be a Vaccine This Year

By Jon Christian

A team of researchers have found a way to biosynthesize tiny gold nanoparticles directly within cancer cells to aid in x-ray imaging — and to destroy them.

Doctors Say They Can Kill Tumors by Growing Gold Inside Them

By Victor Tangermann

When a volunteer in AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial fell sick, the entire study had to be put on hold to see if it was a side effect.

COVID Vaccine Trial Paused After Volunteer Develops Mysterious Illness

By Dan Robitzski

There's finally published research suggesting that the Russian COVID-19 vaccine boosts the immune system, but it's not clear if it will actually help.

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Finally, There’s Evidence That the Russian COVID Vaccine Might Work

By Dan Robitzski

Doctors engineered a virus that can infect treatment-resistant tumors and make them more vulnerable to existing therapies.

Doctors Fight Deadly Tumors Using Gene-Hacked Virus

By Dan Robitzski

The bodybuilding supplement AKG keeps mouse alive and healthy for longer, so scientists want to see if it does the same for humans.

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This Drug Makes Mice Live Longer and Healthier Lives

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists mapped the physical structure of the coronavirus' genetic code at an unprecedented level of detail in hopes that they can find ways to stop it.

Scientists Create 3D Map of Entire Coronavirus Genetic Structure

By Dan Robitzski

Tiny doses of the psychedelic drug LSD could be an effective painkiller — perhaps as powerful, scientists found, as conventional opioids like morphine.

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Research: LSD Microdoses as Effective as Opioids at Treating Pain

By Jon Christian

Researchers in Japan say bacteria could survive on the outside of a spacecraft for the entire duration of a trip to Mars.

Scientists: Bacteria Could Survive Trip to Mars on Outside of Spacecraft

By Jon Christian

New research suggests that a woman is cured of HIV without taking any medications or getting a bone marrow transplant as other cured patients did.

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Doctors Think They Cured a Woman’s HIV by Doing Nothing

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists say that bacteria "scream" as they die, giving off chemical alarms that warn their brethren of danger like antibiotics.

Scientists: Unfortunately, Bacteria Scream When They Die

By Jon Christian

For the first time, experts were able to confirm that a former COVID-19 patient has been reinfected by the coronavirus, but that's no cause for concern.

Doctors Confirm For First Time That Patient Caught COVID Twice

By Victor Tangermann

The Russian government is about to start a 40,000-person experiment on its COVID-19 vaccine, which is usually something that happens before they approve it.

40,000 Russians Are About to Get That Untested COVID-19 Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

New research reveals that kids with COVID-19 have a much higher viral load — meaning the virus reproduces more rampantly in their bodies — than expected.

According to New Research, Kids Spread COVID-19 Like Crazy

By Dan Robitzski

Newly-discovered bacteria can help neutralize dangerous toxins, potentially leading to a new way to clean Superfund sites.

Scientists Find Bacteria That Devours Cancer-Causing Pollutants

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new report, Facebook only flags about 16 percent of the medical misinformation that gets posted on the platform.

Facebook Only Catches 16 Percent of Medical Misinformation Posts

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists saw bacteria subjected to different conditions rapidly develop different evolutionary strategies, helping explain why some become dangerous.

Scientists Just Watched Bacteria Evolve in Real Time

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are developing a low-cost version of a coronavirus antiviral medication using antibodies grown in horses exposed to viral proteins.

A Low-Cost, Experimental Coronavirus Treatment Uses Horse Antibodies

By Dan Robitzski

Five new studies all suggest that COVID-19 survivors could have a more robust resistance to future coronavirus infections than we thought.

COVID-19 Survivors Seem to Have Really Solid Immunity, Researchers Say

By Dan Robitzski

Swallow a Small Device and It’ll Scrape Your Gut Bacteria for Signs of Trouble

Swallow a Small Device and It’ll Scrape Your Gut Bacteria for Signs of Trouble

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists Built an Inhaler They Claim Stops Coronavirus

Scientists Built an Inhaler They Claim Stops Coronavirus

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists may have found a critical weakness in the coronavirus' structure: a small, positively-charged region crucial for latching onto host cells.

Scientists Think They Found the Coronavirus’ Weak Spot

By Dan Robitzski

In extremely preliminary research, blood transfusions seem to have reversed some aspects of menopause and allowed women to get pregnant.

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Blood Transfusions Helped a Menopausal Woman Get Pregnant

By Dan Robitzski

Havn Life wants to build a safe, standardized supply chain for psilocybin researchers in Canada in hopes of developing new medical treatments.

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Meet the Woman Who Wants to Sell Psychedelic Drugs to Scientists

By Dan Robitzski

Bill Gates says that the long wait times for coronavirus test results render the whole thing useless. Or, in his words, the tests are "garbage."

Bill Gates Called Most US Coronavirus Tests “Garbage”

By Dan Robitzski

Russia may begin a mass COVID-19 inoculation campaign this Autumn, but there's no available data showing that the experimental vaccine works.

Russian Officials Are Injecting Themselves With an Experimental COVID Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

A coronavirus vaccine has long been described as the only way out. But experts now agree: even with a vaccine, it will take years to slow the spread.

Even With a Vaccine, It Will Take Months If Not Years to Beat the Coronavirus

By Victor Tangermann

A letter sent out to employees of Chinese state-owned travel companies claims that two experimental coronavirus vaccines are safe and effective.

China Is Giving People a COVID Vaccine That Isn’t Done Being Tested

By Victor Tangermann

The White House's top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci told ABC News that "if you have goggles or an eye shield, you should use it."

Fauci Says Coronavirus Can Infect You Through Your Eyeballs

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists managed to capture images of an antibody neutralizing the coronavirus, and they say studying its moves could lead to vaccines or treatments.

Amazing Electron Microscope Images Show Antibodies Fighting the Coronavirus

By Dan Robitzski

Using just a pipette and a magnetic stirring device, a ragtag group of scientists is attempting to fast track the development of a COVID vaccine.

These Scientists Are Testing an Experimental COVID Vaccine on Themselves

By Victor Tangermann

The New York Department of Health is investigating a recent Chainsmokers concert due to potentially coronavirus spread among a packed crowd.

Officials Are Investigating The Chainsmokers for Spreading the Coronavirus

By Dan Robitzski

An experimental gene therapy seems to have staved off a young boy's Duchenne muscular dystrophy, suggesting new treatments could be on the way.

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Gene Therapy Lets Boy With Muscular Dystrophy Walk Again

By Dan Robitzski

A team of German researchers have found that dogs are able to sniff out the coronavirus with an astonishing accuracy after only a week of training.

Scientists: Trained Dogs Can Smell Coronavirus

By Victor Tangermann

An international team of researchers have identified 21 existing drugs that stop the coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 from replicating.

Researchers Identify 21 Existing Drugs That Stop the Coronavirus

By Victor Tangermann

The experimental COVID-19 vaccine made by Moderna Inc begins its phase three clinical trials, the last round of testing before possible approval, on Monday.

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An Experimental COVID-19 Vaccine Begins its Phase 3 Trial Today

By Dan Robitzski

Before we can launch any long-term space travel, scientists will need to find away to protect against bacteria, which becomes deadlier in microgravity.

Oh Great: Space Travel Makes Bacteria Even Deadlier

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists just discovered one of the ways that the coronavirus sneaks into cells: a "camouflage" enzyme disguises it as a natural part of the host.

The Coronavirus Uses a “Camouflage” Enzyme to Merc Your Cells

By Dan Robitzski

White House infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci warned on Wednesday that it's unlikely the coronavirus will ever go away completely.

Fauci: The Coronavirus Will Probably Be Around Forever

By Victor Tangermann

Experimental COVID-19 vaccines are coming with an unfortunate amount of side effecte. Failing to disclose those risks could turn people off altogether.

Experimental COVID Vaccines Are Giving People Fevers, Headaches, and More

By Dan Robitzski