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 […]
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 […]
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 Scientist has some satisfying news to ring in the New Year. The same genetic mechanism that boosts immunity to one lethal pandemic – the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Rather than the usual excerpt of recent research, I thought I’d start collecting some decent sources of info on the ongoing pandemic. * Vetted and […]
Science News has started a vetted Frequently Asked Questions page about the virus that’s on everyone’s mind now. It’s located here, but the most fun […]
Scientific American and STAT (with the help of the World Health Organization) inch us a little closer to identifying the microbe behind the mysterious outbreak […]
WBUR Boston reports on new hope against a nasty tick-borne ailment, now that Massachusetts researchers are developing an injection against Lyme disease: In their latest […]
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