It’s been a strange and busy 15 months for science journalists. Each day, throughout the day, our inboxes overflow with the latest…
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post Science Writing in the Age of COVID-19Read more
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post On the Anniversary of the Pandemic, Considering the Bioweapon HypothesisRead more
A year ago, the Director General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, delivered the message that would divide time: “WHO…
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post Is COVID Optimism Finally Overtaking Pessimism? Harvard Experts Weigh InRead more
Glimmers of hope are beginning to shine through the gloom of the past year. That was evident in a recent webinar that…
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post Rare Disease Day 2021: Gene Therapy Ups and Downs, AgainRead more
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 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…