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Scientific illustration of a ""Sinuous neck flask employed by M. Pasteur in his experiments against spontaneous generation"; in other words, antique laboratory glassware.

Science Art: “Ballon à col sinueux employé par M. Pasteur dans ses expériences contre la génération spontanée”, 1873.

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This is some laboratory glassware used in Pasteur’s experiments, as illustrated in Les merveilles de l’industrie, an 1873 science book that has a marvelous gallery […]

Got allergic asthma? Congratulations – you’ve also got some COVID-19 protection.

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Science News looks at interleukin-13, an immune-system protein linked with allergies that make it hard to breathe – and make it hard for the SARS-CoV-2 […]

Smallpox vaccine got a boost … from skin bacteria.

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The-Scientist explores a strange interaction that helped eliminate smallpox without us even noticing. The vaccine that helped eliminate this killer got an extra boost from […]

Multiple sclerosis is triggered by the mononucleosis virus – they proved it.

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Scientific American hails a breakthrough in fighting MS with the definitive discovery that the Epstein-Barr virus, which causes mononucleosis and which 95% of American adults […]

The new COVID19 pill works by creating mutations. This has some virologists worried.

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Science covers the controversy around Merck’s new antiviral pill, molnupiravir, which definitely interferes with viruses’ ability to reproduce, which kills nearly all infections … but […]

Bees trained to detect COVID can speed up testing.

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Reuters has a sweet story on honeybees that have been trained by Wim van der Poel at Wageningen University to expect a treat every time […]

Scientific illustration of a mother and child outside a home; the child is pointing to a red "quarantine" notice.

Science Art: A quarantine safeguards health…, 1936.

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Click to embiggen This is how public health was handled in the days before a lot of diseases were considered “eradicated.” It’s from The Body […]

The same genes that protect against Ebola also protect against COVID-19.

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The Scientist has some satisfying news to ring in the New Year. The same genetic mechanism that boosts immunity to one lethal pandemic – the […]

Coronavirus has reached Antarctica

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Reuters reports on the inevitable – COVID-19 has finally been carried to a research station in the Antarctic, breaking out in more than 30 people […]

Hygiene theater: All the hand sanitizer in the world is kinda beside the point.

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The Atlantic looks at the problem with the way public responses to the pandemic have evolved into rituals that look “disinfecting” but really aren’t nearly […]

New COVID hypothesis: not bat meat, but bat mines.

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Guano mining is a real thing, and a really fascinating thing. And sometimes a really dangerous thing, too. The Bioscience Resource Project revisits the case […]

Best COVID outcomes were where people stayed home on their own, cell phone data shows.

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The Lancet looks at pandemic spread in the U.S. and finds that the places that seem to respond the best took precautions and stayed home […]

The world’s second-deadliest Ebola outbreak just ended.

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Nature has some good news about an infectious disease – the outbreak that had killed 2,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo appears to […]

New York’s coronavirus outbreak came from Europe, not China.

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The New York Times looks at two different batches of genetic data which both indicate that shutting down travel from China didn’t actually affect the […]

China’s “Bat Woman” is a virus-hunting hero.

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Or something like that. Scientific American looks at how Shi Zhengli’s kind of obscure area zoological research – looking at how bats contract viral diseases […]

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