I can’t believe it’s been a decade since I researched and wrote The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved…
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post Rare Disease Day 2021: Gene Therapy Ups and Downs, AgainRead more
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post DNA Study Adds Branch to North American Mammoth Family TreeRead more
An international team has assembled billions of DNA snippets from molars that three mammoths left in the permafrost of northeastern Siberia, at…
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post How My “Fruit Fly Love Story” Presaged The Rise of COVID-19 Viral VariantsRead more
I wrote “The Making of a Mutant” in 1978. Then a PhD student in the lab of Thom Kaufman at Indiana University…
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post Getting a COVID Vaccine is More Transparent Than Eating a Hot Dog: Countering Vaccine HesitancyRead more
“So, you’ve been eatin’ hot dogs and chicken nuggets all your life and you don’t want the vaccine ‘cuz you don’t know…
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post Are We Hurtling or Hurdling Towards Herd Immunity for COVID-19?Read more
Vaccines against COVID-19 were developed in record-smashing time, and now that the rollout has begun, attention is returning to herd immunity, in…
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post Mutants Come to Saratoga: COVID New Variants ExplainedRead more
When a new variant of the COVID-19 virus appeared in the UK as 2020 drew to a close, I didn’t think it…
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post What Do Non-identical Identical Twins Have to do with COVID-19? Mutation!Read more
Identical twins Stella and Desiree Vignes were born in 1938 in a Louisiana town so small that it wasn’t on any maps…
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post Ignoring Pandemic Warnings and Links to my 54 COVID ArticlesRead more
Hindsight is 2020, perhaps literally, when it comes to COVID-19. A compelling narrative predicting that a deadly virus – specifically, a coronavirus…
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post The First COVID-19 Vaccines: What’s mRNA Got To Do With It?Read more
Most of us have an intuitive understanding of how a vaccine works: show the immune system a bit of a pathogen, or…
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post Why Do Males Fare Worse With COVID-19? A Clue From Calico CatsRead more
Early on in the pandemic, a worse clinical scenario for the male of the species emerged. A study published mid-May from Italian…
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post Dr. Paul Offit Talks COVID Vaccines, With JAMA’S Howard BauchnerRead more
Science and medical writers have been under an avalanche of information for nearly a year now, as we translate technical information about…
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post Worse Than COVID? The Tasmanian Devil’s Contagious CancerRead more
It’s hard to imagine anything worse than the horrors at our hospitals right now. But in a recent JAMA webinar, Nicholas Christakis…